Unreconcilable Guilt-The Unnatural Act of the taking of another Human Life

 

Reading this article titled “Two men arrested in plot to kidnap Michigan governor were Marine veterans” by Philip Athey for Your Marine Corps, October 10, 2020, got me to wondering just where this idea of committing such an act originated from?  The article read “Two of the 13 men arrested in an alleged domestic terrorism plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were Marine veterans, according to Marine officials.

 

Joseph Morrison was a Marine reservist who joined the Corps in March 2015 and was discharged from the reserves as a lance corporal on Thursday, Capt. Joseph Butterfield, a headquarters Marine Corps spokesman, told Marine Corps Times Saturday.

He was assigned to Engineer Support Company, 6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, Battle Creek, Michigan, and his awards included the National Defense Service Medal and the Selected Marine Corps Reserve Medal, Butterfield said.  Daniel Harris was an 0311 who joined the Corps in June of 2015 and was discharged in June of 2019 after serving with 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, based out of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Butterfield said.

His awards included the Good Conduct Medal, the Humanitarian Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Korean Defense Service Medal and the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, Butterfield said.

 

The two men were allegedly part of a militia group named the “Wolverine Watchmen,” who were allegedly plotting to take down the Michigan government for perceived constitutional violations, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said at a Thursday news conference.

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“Our efforts uncovered elaborate plans to endanger the lives of law enforcement officers, government officials and the broader public," Nessel said.  “The individuals in custody are suspected to have attempted to identify the home addresses of law enforcement officers in order to target them, make threats of violence intended to instigate a civil war and engaged in planning and training for an operation to attack the capitol building of Michigan and to kidnap government officials including the governor of Michigan,” Nessel added.”

 

Now I am fully aware that as a result of the McDonald v Chicago U.S. Supreme Court case in 2010, the “Supreme Court held that states could not restrict the ownership of handguns for self-defense” according to https://en.wikipedia.org, that being the case, any citizen can possess a firearm.  My question is why having the right to own a firearm seems to equate feeling free to use that weapon for the possible purpose of the taking of another human life and appeasing your own personal goal?  I ask this question because to me, all that you wish to protect which could cause the death of another human is really not yours to protect in the first place.

 

Here’s what I mean when I say that what you say that you are very willing to commit this unnatural act of taking another’s life over something that it really not yours is this.  Society has us believing that all we need to stake a claim on material possessions is a piece of paper but truth be told, in my opinion, the Bible has a completely different slant on that. 

 

Matthew Chapter 21 verses 33-40 tells of a conversation Jesus had with the religious teachers of his time and he was attempting to explain to them via this parable the purpose of his arrival on earth.  It is written that the story went like this “There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.  When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit. The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’ So, they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 

 

My interpretation of this parable is that on this earth and in this universe, we, the mortal human beings, are the tenants and God is the one and only landowner.  He sent Abraham, Moses and now Jesus to collect his portion of the harvest and the harvest were not of fruit or money but of souls.  Souls nurtured and cared for by those he had placed in charge of this vineyard but instead of simply doing what he had requested of them, they grew arrogant and defiant.  They refused and slaughtered those coming to collect in his name.  For John 5 verse 43 says; “For I come to you in my father’s name, and you have rejected me. Yet if others come in their own name, you gladly welcome them.”  So what is it again that you think you own.  For me, all we own is what we can take with us when we leave this earthly life and that is only our soul.  This is the treasure that God has asked us to guard with ever fiber of our being, not this materialistic crap that man has convinced us that means more than even another human life.

 

So now the question becomes, what is it that you need to do to properly guard the one and only treasure you have and earn your way to everlasting life?  Well it is written within the Bible as instruction directly from his only son, Jesus himself.  Matthew 22 verse 37 “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.  A second is equally important:  Love your neighbor as yourself.  The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” Maybe it’s just me but these two commandments seem much easier to accomplish than keeping track of the 10 that God wrote on 2 stone tablets for Moses.

 

Read Matthew 6 verse 22 which says, “Your eye is the lamp that provides light for your body.  When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light.  But when you eye is bad; your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is” for an idea of how deep your darkness may be.  Work hard each and every day to reduce that darkness as much as you can and remember that God has only given you the strength to carry your cross and not anyone else’s.  I say that because in Matthew 6 verse 34, it is written “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries.  Today’s trouble is enough for today”.  This is evident when life appears to get extremely overwhelming.  It is my opinion that when this happens, it could be a clue that you may be carrying one cross to many.

 

As far as those who still wish to claim that they are always ready to commit this unnatural act and take a human life, I saw, if you haven’t done it yet stay as far away from it as possible because the guilt that accompanies this act is unrelenting and unforgiving.  And as we have become accustomed to, there will still be those, just like the Pharisees that Jesus was trying to educate, who will ignore all of this.  Some will even attempt to use what they call the voices of our “founding fathers” and as always, the U.S. Constitution.  To them I say this, the 3 people responsible for crafting the U.S. Constitution was Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams.  Both Jefferson and Franklin were more incline to spin this document to support the southern states way of life so I personally, refuse to take much of what they had to say to heart.  Many rave about Thomas Jefferson, however but according to an article titled “A brief history of the enduring phony science that perpetuates white supremacy” written by Michael Ruane for the Washington Post on April 30, 2019 Thomas Jefferson also chimed in on the inferiority of the black by writing “in imagination, they are dull and tasteless”.  According to this article, Jefferson suggested that the difference in color, and faculty as an argument against emancipation and even suggested extermination of the entire race.  If this is true, I think you can clearly see why anything coming out of the mouth of Jefferson would be convincing to me at all.  Lest we forget, these same words were later regurgitated by a New York lawyer in 1916 name Madison Grant in his book titled “The Passing of the Great Race”.  No one knew that this book would later be translated into different languages and the extermination of an entire race a particular major point to this German citizen who called Grant’s book his bible.   That individual was Adolf Hitler.