This may sound like a shock to everyone.
I have never been raped. Never been molested. Nothing. I grew up in Mr. Rogers Neighborhood practically.
Why must I personally need to go through some horrible abuse to be angry about it? That's the burden of empathy.
I am simply a Christian who does not sugarcoat my worldview because it makes me comfy. No, I accept things as they are, not how I want them to be.
I want to challenge you all, look up the story of the Levite's concubine in the book of Judges. You've probably never heard of it, and that's because it's a lovely little story about a woman who's brutally gang-raped to death, her body is cut up into pieces and sent throughout Israel, and this prompts the tribes to go to war with each other resulting in even more rape.
The Bible doesn't censor the diabolical evil things that human beings are capable of, and neither should we.
I honestly sometimes wish we could return to the days of the Old Testament, when God actually did get angry. We may think, "Oh, he was so harsh in the Old Testament." Yeah, he was harsh because he was dealing with terrible, TERRIBLE people!
I understand the empathy and commend you for it, and I'm very glad you haven't been through the things you write about so frequently.
But there is also a difference between empathy and outright hatred, such as in the original post where you talk about having people "slowly beaten to a bloody pulp" and "have their heads split open."
Yes, I'm familiar about the story of the Levite's concubine and when I discovered it as a kid, it used to keep me awake at night because I was thinking, "If God let that happen to someone else, He could easily allow that to happen to me too," and I was terrified. Like you, I thought it was a horrible injustice and I couldn't understand how God could stand by and let it happen, and it messed up my faith for a long time (and is still messing it up today.)
But there is also a difference between empathy and the outright anger/hatred expressed in your posts.
Why are you so intent on shocking people with things they already seem to be quite aware of, especially through experience?
I see that you know the Bible well enough to know about the story you quoted in Judges...
Do you also know this passage? "For the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God." -- James 1:20.
I understand why you have the anger and hate, but no matter how much you keep typing it out in thread after thread and trying to shock people, it is not producing God's answer to these problems.
Instead of looking at other people as brainless clods who need to be "shocked" into action, why not put all that energy into doing something like joining an advocacy group, or an organization that helps victims, rather than preach to people from an invisible pulpit?
