{"id":32817,"date":"2014-05-29T08:06:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T00:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianitymalaysia.com\/wp\/?p=32817"},"modified":"2022-02-18T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T08:17:40","slug":"elliot-rodger-tragedy-christian-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianitymalaysia.com\/wp\/elliot-rodger-tragedy-christian-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elliot Rodger Tragedy; A Christian Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

29 May 2014 by Rev Dr Steven Kau –<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Each morning as I buy the Star papers and have my breakfast, it is relatively uneventful. But this [last Monday] morning, it was different. The headlines on the papers read, “Much-loved boy turns killer.” As I read what it was all about, it talks about a young men who had tremendous problem finding a girl and sex from any of the multitude of girls that surrounds him. Didn’t tell why but he just couldn’t get a single girl to take an interest in him. In his anger and frustration, he vowed to take revenge on the girls, especially blondes, for this rejection. He subsequently when out knifed three girls to death and shot another three before turning the gun on himself. Many who read the Star and other newspapers this morning would obviously say all kinds of things about Elliot Rodger. Most of it probably negative things and that’s to be expected. But what really saddened me and made me mad as a hornet, was how did this handsome and well to do young man become like this? The tragedy is that if we (as a society) are really honest, we made him what he is. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Elliot Rodger is a horrifying example of how badly we have failed young men in America and may I say in Malaysia too. You see, the truth is that his obsession with sex and losing his virginity did not come out of nowhere. Rather, it was the result of being constantly immersed in a sex-obsessed culture for the past 22 years. In America today, their young men are constantly being bombarded with sexual messages in advertising, in television shows, in video games, in movies and on the Internet. They are literally been trained to believe that scoring with women is the ultimate goal in life. So we should not be surprised when their behavior reflects this underlying philosophy. Of course very few of our young men become mass murderers like Elliot Rodger but the crisis that we are facing is much broader than that. The obsession with illicit sex that our young men have is destroying millions upon millions of lives, it is spreading sexually transmitted diseases like wildfire, not to mention the murder of millions of babies in abortion for convenience sake and the decline of the American family, where marriage often comes with a 90 day option. What a deal?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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22 year old Elliot Roger is the son of Hunger Games unit director Peter Roger and Malaysian Ong Li Chin. I understand they are now divorced. He was deeply immersed in the culture of Hollywood but he was incredibly frustrated that he was not able to have the kind of lifestyle that Hollywood had always promised him.
\nHe greatly lamented the fact that he was \u201cstill a virgin\u201d and he was incredibly frustrated that he had never kissed a girl. He couldn\u2019t understand why \u201cgirls gave their affection and sex and love to other men but never to me.\u201d He especially seemed to hate the \u201cspoiled blondes\u201d who rejected him and he stated that he believed that \u201cthe ultimate evil behind sexuality is the human female.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks to the YouTube videos and his 140 pages \u201cmanifesto\u201d (\u201cMy Twisted World \u2013 The Story of Elliot Rodger\u201d) that have been revealed, we know quite a bit about what Rodger was thinking. Obviously this was a very sick and twisted individual who viewed the young women around him as sex object. Read some of the things he said:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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