The police shootings and the violence around the country spell Truth with a capital T. Some would say this is where the culture war turns “hot” and I understand their point. But from our perspective, the point where our war turns “hot” is not necessarily when bullets fly, but well before that point when people decide in their minds to suppress what they know to be true — in this case the truth between right and wrong, good and bad. See Romans 1:18.
Those who wish to play fast and loose with the event will tell you about guns and gun violence. We should outlaw guns. I actually sat in a Congressman’s office when he said we should redesign all post office mail boxes around the country because someone from his home district had been arrested for too easily gaining access to others’ mail and stealing it. Good gosh.
“This is not so much about gun control as it is about what’s in men’s hearts,” East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux said at the briefing after the Baton Rouge shootings on July 17th. We can say people often make bad choices but like the Sheriff I would say it’s a combination of battlefields we’re dealing with here. The moral battlefield is where the fight for standards is a reflection of our heart love for God and the volitional battlefield, for choices, is where we often want to “land” after an event like this.
But, shooting anyone is a moral issue. If your standards include going out and shooting someone—and you do—then it matters little that you chose to do it. Rather it’s a reflection of what’s in your heart. For those who ascribe to the school of thought that man is basically good, explain to me how this was just a bad choice on the part of the shooter. No, wait, don’t explain it. I’ll never be convinced.
If we’re struggling as a nation on the moral battlefield, and want to blame it on our choices on the volitional battlefield, just think about how much ground we’re losing on the intellectual battlefield—the main thrust of Satan’s attack on the battlefield no one is talking about. Don’t know what I’m talking about? “Enroll” in the Basic Course of Culture War College and find out.