History has proven that when a culture condones wanton killing as a metaphor for personal freedom, it has reached its apex and can go nowhere but down, dissolving under the weight of amorality. Yet, outside its dissolute halls of “justice” there arises a new culture that despises gratuitous death imposed on the innocent, the undeserving and the unwanted.
As much as secular society prefers to ignore the most widely read book of all time, the chronicles of the Bible find corroboration in writings of contemporaneous historians. In this context, or even that of a guide for ethical behavior, the accounts carry weight as teaching tools if only we would access them.
