Several heinous acts by individuals were publicized during the past 24 months. These are the ones which was in the media; I am sure that there were many more not in the media. Most of them had one unnoticed factor; the perpetrator didn’t believed in Christianity, and two perpetrators actually denounced Christianity in writing. Murder and other heinous acts has increased over the past few years such as mass shootings at the job site.

America has become a more violent country; the cause is partially due to the infestation of drugs on the streets, but another part of the cause for an increase in violence is due to the negative movement against Christianity such as banding prayer and all Christian symbols from the campus of American public schools. Statistics nonequivalently has shown that crime among youths has drastically increased. The value of life has decrease noticeably among our youth.

My opinion concerning the increase in violence is that persons doesn’t have the option of exercising a faith. Revenge is not satisfactory unless more damaged is done by the revenge act than what the original act that gave cause for revenge. As a result, we have an enormous increase of violence. In faith, God rewards those who forgive, and accepts the way of the Lord. God’s rewards far exceeds those of murdering the subject who performed the original act that justified the revengeful act in return. In faith, when one believes that God is right and everyone else is wrong is not going to return to the job site and perpetrate mass murders and mayhem.

Our youth should have the option to gather and pray to God, and the right to display symbols of their faith anywhere in America. Let the sweetness of Christ Jesus ease the bitterness in our nation, and bring us to a gentler and kinder nation. The many acts of revenge shall drastically decrease. Peace!

*** Will Myers