Are we so determined as a culture to preach this "cheapened grace" that mass murderers, apparently unrepentant, can continue to think that they are Christians?
I would not as a family member have said anything to Rader about rotting in a hole. I would have said:
Rev 22: 14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, F131 that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. 15 But F132 outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
Galatians 5: 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, F19 fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, F20 drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
After reading this to the man, I would have gotten up and left without a comment.
Rader is a psychopath.
I don't understand the status of the soul of a psychopath. A true psychopath is generally incapable of remorse or any kind of recovery.
To watch him today musing over the similarities between himself and his victims, the fact that he also likes dogs and gardening and the AF, was nauseating.
The victims' families will see their loved ones again. Most likely Rader doesn't have that solace in his future.