Editor, The Commercial:
I read the “A Call For Peace” article that took up a full page. It asks “prayers for” several categories of folks. It asks that folks “hug other folks.” What’s the chance you might feel the bulge of a gun when you do? Those who are doing the killing and mayhem are most likely to laugh at your prayers.
The time to have prevented their criminality has long passed! You say Christian teachings say God helps those who help themselves. What it does say is “Raise up a child in the way he should go and as an adult he will follow that.”
The other Shakespeare often thought to be Scripture is that as the twig is bent, so grows the tree. When a people of any race or ethnicity do not raise their sons to know it is dishonorable for them to impregnate a girl of any age and then abandon her and their child, we will get what we have gotten. If our daughters are raised to think it is female empowerment to freely sleep around before marriage, they get what we now have as a people, which is a lot of poverty and uneducated people with kids they can’t support.
Folks, we cannot stop this degenerate activity by “praying for” those who have no use for God or respect for others. What we can do is to stop raising another generation who will take their place and continue their ways without the required changes.
Independent reporting for Pine Bluff & Jefferson County since 1879.
There’s a big difference between discipline and punishment. Discipline is the example you set by living and teaching a better way. Punishment is what is given when the better way is not followed, until it becomes easier to do what is correct. It is not the fault of kids when their parents don’t do their job. When they refuse to assume responsibility for the kids they bring into the world, how are the kids to blame?
YES, love and give all the support you can where you can. But QUIT making excuses for those who won’t accept responsibility for themselves to the degree that they could and SHOULD!
Karl Hansen,
Hensley