I point to this video as a display of the sadness and depravity of humanity put on display throughout, but especially at the end of, the Convocation Service for Virginia Tech that was held on April 17, a couple of days after the shooting.

Starting at 50 minutes into the video (you can scan ahead on the above link and start listening at the 50 minute mark), one of Virginia Tech’s English Professors came to the podium to give the closing remarks. In those remarks, these things were said:

“We do not understand this tragedy… We know we did nothing to deserve it… But neither does the child in Africa dying of AIDS… neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army… neither does the baby elephant being ??? in its community being devastated for ivory… neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water…” etc… Then: “No one deserves a tragedy!… We are better than we think!”

And the point of the convocation was to speak against the devaluing of human life???

Other absurdities went on during this service, but I simply want to focus on what was said above at the end of the service.

How is it that anyone can come away from this service and not wonder why human life doesn’t matter to that many people anymore? I mean, we’re just random products of the evolutionary process and we’re only as important as a baby elephant being ‘murdered’ for its ivory… right?

I wonder how many people in this service were thinking about the passage I quoted the day before the convocation on my blog? Let’s read it again:

Luke 13:1-5…

There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

If the standing ovation given at the end of those closing remarks was a hint of how the people of Virginia Tech view themselves, then Virginia Tech will go on devaluing human life and denying the image of God they were created with. This is the true sadness of the whole event. It is not surprising to anyone who knows the story of Genesis, but in a service where a Christian minister speaks and does nothing to exalt the glory of Jesus Christ for a room full of many people that would call themselves Christians… why did this women, speaking destructive lies, receive such glory from the audience?

The answer: DEPRAVITY

Until all of us understand the depravity of the human heart, no one will understand why things like the Virginia Tech shooting happen. No one will understand why the children in Africa are dying of AIDS. No one will understand why “the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth.” (Genesis 8:21)

Well, this is all I will say for now. Anyone not familiar with the Bible, who reads the story of Genesis, might understand a little bit about what I am saying. But it is truly sad and evil that the image of God was further spit upon by the English professor who is ignorant of God’s power and God’s glory.

In Christ and In Defense of the Faith,