and the children, are they simply collateral damage?
they get the same reward as their tormenter/murderer?
i guess Christ was just kidding then when he said
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Suppose I hang a target on the wall and ask every person in the room to take a dart and do his best to the hit the bulls eye. When all the darts are thrown, I say, There is no difference.
Oh, says someone, what do you mean no difference? I only missed the bulls eye by a quarter of an inch.
I say, There is no difference, because all came short of the bulls eye. In Gods sight there is no difference between sinners. We may not commit the same sins, but everybody has sinned, and all men are sinners.