In a new op-ed, the Benham Brothers are offering their two cents on the school shooting in Parkland, Florida last week.
The brothers start by saying they’re brokenhearted over the shooting, “where 17 souls were gunned down by a troubled, teenage boy named Nikolas Cruz.”
“Our responsibility as Christians to be the hands and feet of Jesus, by weeping with the brokenhearted and bringing comfort in every way possible,” they say.
And they’re doing so by linking the tragedy to stuff like illicit sex and sexual immorality. You know, a natural segue.
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The twinsies write:
Jesus said, “Out of the heart come evil thoughts – murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.” The bottom line is that we live in a fallen world, where human beings have hearts capable of great evil, aided and abetted by demonic forces of Satan, who come only to “rob, kill, and destroy.”
So what could possibly cause a young man like Cruz to behave in such a horrific and evil way? Besides Satan, that is.
“[Cruz] lives in and has been educated by an American educational system that has completely rejected God, His statues and His ways,” the brothers say.
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Schools these days have become a “major problem,” they continue, because they now promote things like drugs and illicit sex (a.k.a. homosexuality).
“And this digression can be directly pinned back to the 1960s, where a series of Supreme Court decisions aggressively removed God from our schools,” they write, resulting in an “aggressive dismissal of moral standards.”
Evil, the brothers say, has filled the void left by God’s forced removal from public schools.
“It’s time to turn back to the only One who can save us,” they write. “Jesus, who can penetrate the most hardened hearts.”
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Paco
Funny how we still needed prisons for thieves, murderers and rapists back before God was placed back on his side of the separation between church and state. You can teach societal values of what is right and wrong without attaching it to religion.
The only change is that it has become normalized for every citizen to easily get their hands on military style assault weapons that are designed for war. Citizens should only have access to muskets. Those were the firearms available when the second amendment was written. I wonder what the founding fathers would have thought of modern firearms being used to slaughter innocent children in schools.
Tobi
His statues? *sigh*
Greg
These guys are so self-righteous, they don’t even know what they’re talking about. They take any opportunity to make asinine statements. The American Educational System has rejected God’s statues? Statues? Like the Virgin Mary on dashboards? When was “God” in our schools? Were they around in the 60s? How would they know? I like how they use “penetrate” when talking about Jesus Christ.
Greg
and they are so not attractive.
tjack47
Separation of Church and State is difficult for some Christians to grasp, as they believe they must witness, testify and convert. I was raised Christian. I’m an atheist. Do they want atheism instruction in our school system? Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Rastafarianism? Private and home schooling are for this population. The obsession with homosexuality is nauseating. Go bake cakes for adulterers, fornicators, thieves, liars and murderers for fuck sake.
CodyJ
and they are not very bright
NateOcean
I get a strong incestual vibe from this pair.
OzJosh
It’s their warped thinking – with its notions of sin, judgement and retribution – that is one of the major contributors to mentally ill people thinking it is somehow their right or duty to take a gun and enact that judgement and retribution on others. Numerous mass murderers have been shown to be deluded souls believing they were doing “god’s work”. Others have lashed out when they felt judged, stigmatised or excluded by harsh religious teachings. As ever, toxic religion is the problem, not the solution.
Juanjo
This argument about the removal of god from schools has always pissed me off. God[s] is/are still in school and have never left. You can read about them in history, literature, and philosophy classes to your heart’s content. If you are a follower of a particular one, then you can say a silent prayer to him or her, or it whenever you wish, you just cannot disturb the class while in session. You can sit at lunch and read some religious scrip or book.
What you cannot do is what happened to me back in the day – you cannot force non-Christian kids to participate in a school enforced religious practice. You cannot force the Jewish, Muslim, Baha’i, Sikh, Buddhist, Pagan, or even the atheist kids to pray in “Jesus’ name” as you used to do.
Fraking hypocrites.
gayjim1969
It’s interesting how these two think that God is the answer to everything; put God back into schools and everything else will fall in line. Did God stop the mass shootings at churches? Did God stop the molestation and rape of children in the Catholic Church? The act of “accepting God” or “teaching religion” in a place doesn’t magically change the people inside–and it certainly doesn’t change the person with a gun who enters it with the intent of shooting as many people as possible.
The Benham Brothers ignored the last two admonitions in Matthew 15:19, giving “false testimony, slander.” Through their cherry-picked, spurious, hateful comments, they are doing the same things as the irreligious, immoral, Satan-led masses.
As far as sexual immorality and homosexuality, their continual focus on homosexuality and repeated (unconscious?) references to penetration indicate that they may have secrets and skeletons to be found in those particular closets.
phallictomato
I bet those brothers watch so much porn. I find it hilarious how they’re being holier than thou, when we all know they’re complete and utter hypocrites. I hope they remember what Jesus did to the religious hypocrites who shamed the prostitute. He who is without sin cast the first stone. But of course the brothers will cherry pick which things to follow in the bible, because, you know… hypocrisy! 😀 I also hope those clothes they’re wearing aren’t of mixed fabrics, or else they should be given the death penalty, according to their bible. Also, if they think homosexuality is wrong, then they need to live by their word and follow all the other things in the bible that is apparently sinful according to the bible (but we do anyway):
– Round haircuts: If you’ve ever shaven your beard or cut your hair, you’re screwed. Leviticus 19:27 reads “You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.”
– Can’t play football: Guess what the football is made of? 😉 Leviticus 11:8, which is discussing pigs, reads “You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.”
– Fortune Telling: Be it from a fortune cookie, a horoscope, or a fortune teller. Leviticus 19:31 reads “Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.” Leviticus 20:6 reads: “As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.”
Actually there’s a whole bunch of them. Just look at the others: http://www.11points.com/Books/11_Things_The_Bible_Bans,_But_You_Do_Anyway
Now Benham Brothers, either follow everything your bible says, or do us all a favour, come out of the closet already, and STFU.
Zodinsbrother
So um, if illicit sex is the cause of mass shootings how come they only happen in God fearing USA and not in atheistic and more liberal places like the UK. I’m sure it cant be anything to do with guns being banned there could it.
bbg372
Do you know what would be great? If you reference another article, citing the source and linking to the other article.
jeffhill
For two straight men they sure spend a hell of a lot of time talking about and apparently researching gay sex.
phraughy
I know, right? I am sure it is just a matter of time before they get caught with a guy.
oz1967
Desperate homophobic and bigoted famewhores looking for any sort of fame and attention.
paul dorian lord fredine
they love to bash the public education system but checking i can’t find anything about their education before attending liberty u except for a few random comments that insinuate that in those ‘formative years’ they weren’t exactly known for being saintly (one, and i don’t care which) says his brother got into trouble for being ‘mouthy’. whatever. they’re both now total dickheads just a little too concerned with others sex lives, particularly gay sex lives. and with 9 kids between them it makes me wonder if they’re trying to prove something other than they can be ‘fruitful and multiply’.
skeldare
Oh look, yet another story about these dimwits.
CastleSF
In spite of their outlandish view on mass shooting, it is not difficult to see that these brothers are the textbook version of a handsome American man. Give them some time and hopefully they will come around and be more tolerant.
ChrisK
@CastleSF Is there any bigots out there that you don’t like? I think as Kangol said. You’re just trolling us.
jd.cali
Please STOP covering these morons. Please! I write this every two weeks…
Coverage on them is what they want. So you are only giving them a platform. Please stop!
Terrycloth
Queerty can do us all a favor by refusing to print anything related to these two airheads….
alllowercase
Queerty…. WHY, WHY, WHY? Why must you give these self-important, bigots a stage? They have plenty conservative outlets distributing their lies/hate speech, why must you do the same?
It is time that we say NO to people like these two, and Trump. Refuse to give them an audience here. I for one hate it when I see them listed in articles to read here. Putting them and their ridiculous ideas here on your site just gives them the appearance of importance.
Please STOP putting them on your site!