The recent mass killings of innocent children in a peaceful town in New England reminds me of another mass killing of innocent children ca. 2000 years ago.
As later reported in “The Good News” a child had been born in the little town of Bethlehem. The child was perceived to be a threat to the current ruler of the nation and therefore had to be eliminated. Since there was no way of knowing exactly when the child was born or where in town he lived, the ruler decided to mass kill all boys under the age of two.
Fortunately for the child, a messenger appeared in a dream to its stepfather and told him to take the child and its mother and flee before the Secret Service proceeded with the mass killings.
I can feel the horror and grief such a maniacal action caused not just in the little town of Bethlehem but all throughout the nation and possibly the world.
How could such killings be justified?
I can also picture how the mothers and fathers of the dead children must have felt toward the child who was the cause of their deaths—yet he got away!
I wonder why the child’s real father who according to “The Good News” knows everything that happens before it happens did not prevent the horror and grief caused by such insanity.
Also, “The Good News” reports that that same father could do everything he wished, so why did he wish for such massacre to happen? Does that make him responsible?
Jake Hjorth
Grand Marais
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