Faith, Fear and the Wages of Columbine

Was this article just a plug for that new book? How devious... how x-ian?

Faith, Fear and the Wages of Columbine
By Matthew Philips and Lisa Miller
Apr 11, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Apr 20, 2009
Mr. Philips and Mrs. Miller, would you please find away to pass this letter on to the two pastors in the article that is reference above.

Dear Pastor,
First allow me to thank you for your service to the people of God. Hurt is a dangerous thing that can damage the greatest of people. Columbine was a tragedy that hurt many all over the nation and was left with the question ???How could God allow something like this to happen??? go unanswered. To this day that question remains unanswered from many pulpits across America. It is not that we as Pastors refuse to answer but it is one that is very hard and almost impossible to answer.

After reading this article my heart went out to both of you not just because two of my fellow brethren have left the service of God but God. It was more so because of the lack of us as brethren that did not come to your aide. We as pastor have need of others coming to our aide in our times of despair. I have never meet either of you but I would like to take this moment to say a few words that I hope will bring some amount of peace to a troubling situation.

There are something we will never be able to answer are know until the day of Jesus??? return. It is God???s love that at times like these He carries us through our storms in a preparation period for the next level. As the elect of God we must go through storms in our life that brings us to our breaking point that we made gain control over an area in our life that will damage us severely in the next level.
We have to remember the words of Jesus to Peter ???the devil desires to sift you like wheat???. The reason behind this is to find out if you really believe what you say you believe. Our ultimate goal is to reach the place that Paul reached and say, ???I know now in whom I have believed???. Some storms and preparations come just to shake our faith and bring us to a place where we must stand and trust God while doing nothing. There are also those storms and moments of preparations that require us to deal with things from our past that we have suppressed and refused to deal with and take it to God. In all of this it is the way we go from faith to faith and glory to glory. If we never go through these things we could never help those who will experience the same thing at some point in their lifetime. Just know that when these moments come they will be harder and more profound than what they may experience because we need to be ready for the worst.

There is nothing that I can possibly that will bring comfort but please consider these words as God continue to prepare you for the next level. My pray is that God completes the work He has begun in you. I look forward to meeting you at the appointed time. God bless and keep you.


Thank you Mrs. Miller and Mr. Philips for this opportunity to write this letter.


Pastor Duane

Klebold and Harris were spoiled, anti-social, and psychopathic. Once in a great while, two such personalities find each other, feed off each other's extreme narcissism, and then society pays the price for their lack of human development. Evil? In my mind, "yes". Society is always unprepared to stare true evil in the face. As for the taunts, ostracism, etc. - some personalities go out of their way to seek attention, positive or negative, any kind will do -- then moan about the attention they receive. All part of their self-absorption. The ONLY ones responsible for their behavior was them. The rest is just picking at scabs 10 years after the fact.

I think the people that wrote this article need to do more research. Those two didn't up and decide one day that it would be a party to just go to school and kill a bunch of kids. If Dylan would have been of that mind set he wouldn't have ended himself. The reason why this happened was because the good "Godfairing" kids that are needing spiritual guidance now couldn't be descent human beings and let the strange kids at school alone. Even though it was the wrong way for it to be handled those two boys lashed out at the kids hurting them physically and mentally every single day. Maybe teens will learn they can't treat people how ever they want with out consequences now.

"The kind of white, evangelical christianity"? Sweeping the country at the time? Only the American liberal press could get away with that kind of journalism...I could get mad, but you know, I think I'll just have a good lalugh.....

He died on a cross for your sins and mine; I pray that someday nightponderer you can see that before it's too late. Jesus is real and he has risen. He loves you and He is waiting for you to let him in your life and if you let him in you will be richly blessed.

There is a simple problem that appears in other mass shootings, Subliminal Distraction. Both shooters were said to be mentally ill but they were exhibiting symptoms of Subliminal Distraction exposure.

This is a problem discovered and solved forty years ago.;

Office workers using new workstations began to have mental breaks. The cubicle solved that problem in offices by 1968. No one has recognized that computer use where there is movement in peripheral vision creates the "special circumstances" for this problem.

The Virginia Tech, Redlake School, Joleka Finland School, and Atlanta Day Trader shooters all had this problem. Evidence for these four is in news reports and interviews of police. The Columbine shooting facts were sealed. There is no information except for the symptoms of depression, paranoia and thoughts of suicide to connect this shooting to Subliminal Distraction,

No one in their right mind plans and executes such a mass killing..

VisionAndPsychosis.Net

You see, you give two people press coverage, and they try to convey thier point...AGAIN! If people didn't listen the first time, or before them... they certainly wont in the future.

Spouting scripture does nothing. This supposed mythical jesus figure did the same... in the end he was hung on a cross. Go figure.

However it's Know God.... no problems.

You can also use the equation: KNOW GOD=KNOW PROBLEMS. People who believe in God--and not just believe, but make God the center of their faith and hope--suffer the same problems common to all humanity. Whether or not you believe in God, time and chance happen to all.

Simple: no god = no problems; and yes it's that easy.

SImple... no god, no problem, and yes it's that easy.

Unless you CHOOSE to attend a Christian school, Religion is already removed from the school system and has been for a long time. Religion did not cause this tragedy. Religion did not cause this stress in those men of faith. Becoming SELF-focused and feeling that you can control the world from within is not the way to happiness. If it were, much of the population would already be there! People would not feel like they have the power to decide who lives or dies. And clearly, as is the case in most all of these mass shootings, the shooters do not wish to be a part of this society any longer, or they would not end their own lives. It is definitely time to forgive and forget. If you hold onto all that anger, fear, confusion, frustration, and grief, then you haven't really forgiven at all. If everyone would follow the golden rule, and treat everyone else the way you would like to be treated (with love, kindness, forgiveness, and trust) as God tells us to do, then no one would feel like they HAD to go out and harm other people because they would feel loved, cared for, and respected. How long will it be until we LEARN from these tragedies? How long until we CHANGE our actions? We have all the information we need to fix society, and yes, it came from God. What are we waiting for?

The tragedy of Colombine is never forgotten, just recorded in the hearts and minds of those who were involved. May we all learn well from what happened there. God alone holds the key to unlock that mystery of pain, sorrow and triumph over evil.