Alleged Killer/cannibal Luka Magnotta has Plenty of Fans

Yes, it’s unbelievable, but the alleged killer/cannibal, Luka Magnotta, has his own fans on Facebook.  At least he did until the service shut down some 1400 fans because it was deemed  inappropriate. Apparently the fans consisted mostly of teenage girls as well as some older women. The following is a quote from an ABC news article.

"I like EVERYTHING about him," Destiny St. Denis, the 21-year-old creator of the now defunct page told ABC News in an email. "He needs to know that there are A LOT of people that care about him. He doesn't have to go through life thinking that no one does. That isn't fair. What he did, is his business! No one is in the position to judge him. I support him because he is a human being who deserves love, respect, and affection just like anyone else."

So here is one fan who thinks that no one is in a position to judge Magnotta, because after all what he did is his business.  How many others of his fans believe essentially the same thing?  Well, we don’t know for sure, but there are probably a few others among the remaining 1399 fans.

So what does this have to do with walking and talking our Christian faith?  Well it raises the profound question of whether it is every right to pass judgment on other people. In our contemporary Christian society I’ve heard more than a few Christians loudly proclaim that we have no right to judge anybody. But is that true?

Come and let us reason together for a moment. Is there such a thing as right and wrong?  Is there good and evil in the world? Are there not people in Nigeria right at this moment plotting to murder as many Christians as possible, simply because they are Christians? Were those people who flew the planes into the World Trade Centre guilty of evil because they mercilessly slaughtered over 3000 innocent people? What about serial killers? What about pedophiles who abduct, rape and murder young children. Were Hitler and Stalin and Mao Tse-tung merely misguided in their calculated slaughter of millions of innocents, or did they do evil, and are their actions culpable and worthy of judgment?

Our whole society has gone gaga over moral relativism. And those moral relativists who are consistent cannot condemn anything, because after all, it might be right for some to do “evil”, even if it might be wrong for others to do that same “evil.” 

Sadly I think some of this relativism has infected and affected even some in the church.  For we are at the point where in the name of tolerance and non-judgmentalism Christians are being asked to not pass judgement on actions that former generations clearly saw as moral evil. 

Christians are often referred to as sheep in Scripture.  I put it to you that well armed lambs are neither mute nor stupid. Christians possess wisdom and discernment from scripture. Let us bleat out warning and admonitions to a generation fumbling in the darkness—for the love of God, and the love of people.

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