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Almost every day, we hear from believers who have been emotionally hurt by the
unchecked cruelty of professing "Christians". The following letter from Juli is
just one of these cases:
.... I just felt strongly compelled to share this with people I know would
feel as I did upon seeing this. This week's Sunday morning newspaper (Daytona
Beach News Journal) had a front page headline that read: "Your State Attorney:
Man of God, Man of Law." Beneath this headline is a huge color photograph
taken of a meeting room where men are seated around a long table. The camera
is angled from the ceiling, from a position right beside a large mounted
deer's head, which serves as the foreground on the left side of the entire
picture.
The caption reads: "State Attorney John Tanner, center, leads a staff
meeting recently in his office at the Justice Center with one of his
bow-hunting trophies on the wall looking over the proceedings." I would not be
surprised if this "man of God" requested inclusion of this proof of manhood in
the photograph, and would be even less surprised that few people will even
consider the contradiction involved.
I know I should no longer be stunned by this kind of thing, yet I suppose
after 55 years and counting of still being stunned, I will continue to be.
It's only one small example of the reason we are so easily discouraged again
and again, and why it's so incumbent upon us to make every effort to trust in
God's ways and not man's. There's just an endless stream of callous disregard
for the lives of God's creatures by people who clothe themselves in God's
name.
Blessings, Juli
We strongly believe that the church has a moral duty to speak out against the
ungodliness of trophy hunting, for if they did, the newspaper would never have
referred to this State's attorney as being a "man of God". The church's silence,
and even support of such activity puts them in the same position as those that
lead their children astray; of whom Jesus said that it would be better for such
a person to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck and that he be drowned
in the depths of the sea (Matthew 18:6).
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