As with its “news” coverage, WorldNetDaily’s opinion columnists went the whataboutism-and-distraction route after the El Paso and Dayton massacres.
Insisting the El Paso shooter’s racism isn’t a right-wing value because “American conservatism believes in rugged individualism, in the unique worth of each person, regardless of race or other characteristics” (Lowell Ponte)? Check. Insisting that government can’t stop mass shootings because the real issue is “the breakdown of the family” (Jesse Lee Peterson)? Check.
And it wouldn’t be WND without one of its columnists going off the deep end. Larry Nevenhoven fills this role by blaming mass shootings on … abortion:
If you have any doubt that God judges nations for their collective sin, check out Matthew 25:31-46 where the Lord judges between sheep nations and goat nations. Sheep nations are accepted by Him, but goat nations are sent to an eternal punishment.
My guess is that murdering 60 million innocent babies created in the image of God certainly places America near the top of the goat nations list. So much for our nation being a shining city upon a hill!
OK, what does this have to do with mass shootings?
The Lord said to Cain, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s [innocent] blood is crying out to Me from the ground [for justice]. And now you are cursed….” (Genesis 4:10-11 AMP, emphasis added)
Biblical curses are not trivial putdowns, but are consequences for nations that rebel against God and His ways, as shown in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28.
[…]Can we expect the mass shootings to lessen in the future?Unless Roe v. Wade is overturned, we can expect the mass shootings to increase even more in the future. You see, the consequences for rebelling against God’s ways escalate over time when a nation refuses to repent. But not only will the mass shootings increase, we can also expect an even larger assortment of calamities to hit America.
What can we do?
“Even now, declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” (Joel 2:12)
Weird that God apparently uses the mass deaths of human beings to protest abortion, which to conservatives is already the taking of a life.