No laws, no structure, no prayer, no commandments

                                                                                                                                          Vol. XXII, No. 2, February 2009

. . . So many of our laws were broken by these two boys [referencing the Littleton, Colorado Columbine High School massacre of April 1999]. Man's law apparently meant nothing to them. They were raised by the "Me" generation. The generation of no laws, no structure, no prayer, and no commandments. They were influenced by the generation that has allowed parents to murder their own unborn children.

    Why are we surprised when children kill other children? They were shaped by the generation that took the commands of God off the walls of our classroom. Why are we surprised that they had no regard for the law or for the lives of others? . . . (an excerpt from a sermon preached in Littleton, Colorado, April 25, 1999, by Robert Norris at Ken Caryl Baptist Church. Norris was interim pastor of the church, located less than two miles from Columbine High, and director of missions for the Denver Baptist Association. In Baptist Messenger, May 6, 1999, vol. 88, No. 14, page 7. http://www.baptistmessenger.com )