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“A few years ago, my good friend Brian opened his heart to me and a few other friends about a tragedy in his family. Brian’s teenage son had been brutally murdered some time before and Brian was reflecting on his loving memory of his son and the heartbreak of losing him.
Interestingly, Brian blamed himself for his son’s death because he had allowed his son to be in a dangerous situation and a dangerous place where the murder occurred.
Too late, Brian learned that his son was regularly associating with dangerous people who had no regard for the child’s safety.
Too late, Brian learned that almost every day his son was hanging out in a place where he was distracted from his studies, and where illegal drugs were being sold and used.
Too late, Brian found out that his son was spending large portions of his day in a Godless environment where sexual perversions were practiced, where disrespect for proper authority was encouraged, and where bullying and fighting were everyday practices.
Brian loved his son. Brian and his wife are good, caring, respected citizens. Some of us tried to sympathize with Brian and argued that he should not blame himself for the loss of his son, but Brian was unmoved by what we said.
You see, Brian Rohrbough’s son was murdered at Columbine.
And Brian doesn’t blame guns; he blames himself.
He blames himself for being unfaithful and disobedient to God, He blames himself for being lulled into believing that a Godless government school system would be a healthy and safe place for his son.
Brian pleaded with all of us not to make the same mistake.”
– Michael Anthony Peroutka
5 Pt. Salt 
Two thoughts.
1. I agree with this poor father completely about the implications and dangers of a evolutionary based worldview. I have argued often with unbelievers this very thing – their notion of evolution, besides being bad science, has consequences on the worldviews of those who believe it. If a man is not created in the image of God, but is simply the heir of an ultimately meaningless accident of nasty puddles of sea water, random proteins and radiation or lightening – then indeed, all things are ultimately subjective, and who can say with certainty or conviction that killing innocents in a school is evil? Evil becomes simply just another…opinion. Darwinism has done, and continues to do, great mischief.
2. I have 3 children, all now long ago having reached adulthood. My oldest went to Christian schools, and graduated from the same over 20 years ago. But before my two youngest were even out of elementary school I became ill with a affliction which nearly killed me, and robbed me of my memory, and my ability to work for many years. My two youngest ended up in public school, and both graduated there. The nonsense, the anti-God presuppositions, the warring against basic moral values, the promotion of a view of life and ethics and the world was often the antithesis of the Christian one t and it took a toll on them both. One of them ultimately moved passed it well, the other, not so well. Although under the hand of Providence my ability to send my children to private school disappeared, I have always felt responsible, and not at all unlike this poor grieving father who lamented his sending his son to the cesspool of the Philistines for an “education.”