The following is the part 1 of a 6 part series from an essay which I entered into an essay contest. Over the next several days we are going to be looking at the cult of selfism and postmodernism from a historical, philosophical, sociological, and theological angle. I promise not to get to deep into the subject but get ready to start looking at our culture from a totally different viewpoint.
Introduction
On the morning of March 1, 2008 a family was woken up to a horrifying situation. Their sixteen year old daughter’s boyfriend and a friend broke into their house with the intent to commit a mass murder. Before the event was over the mother would lie dead of gunshot wounds along with the thirteen year old son and the eight year old son stabbed to death. The father lay playing dead on the floor with a gunshot wound to the head and two in the back. He quickly crawled out of the house as the two young men set it on fire to cover the evidence. The father dragged himself almost three hundred yards to a neighbor’s house for help. A mile down the road was an eighteen year old woman and the sixteen year old girlfriend waiting in a car to pick up the two murderers. In less than twenty four hours all were in custody and the sixteen year old girl’s father was in the hospital recovering from his physical injuries. Normally, this would not even be something that I would pay attention too except to pray for the family and for those who committed this horrible crime. I would probably give enough respect to the story to wonder why such an action had occurred then move on. This time the situation took on a new meaning because I work with a distant family member of the eighteen year old young lady who drove the get-a-way car.
On the surface we could speculate that the reason for the murders was over a sixteen year olds fascination with a nineteen year old man. The fact that the families wanted the two to split up because they felt the daughter was too young. We could rationalize that raging hormones had something to do with it. Or maybe a misguided belief that if the family was out of the way they could spend the rest of their lives together. All of these theories and thoughts may be true or it maybe more hideous, more involved or something which has taken a culture by storm and is now invading the very nature of our society. While the above reasons are true I have come to believe that such actions are the result of belonging to the religious cult of Selfism.
God Bless,
Steven
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