Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 32
32 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction would be tantamount to an act of gross injustice. All that the courts of law should do after reaching the verdict of guilty is to ask the Christian criminal to pray to Jesus as the ‘Son’ to save him. And the matter should rest and be brought to a close there and then. It would simply be a case of a book transfer of the criminal’s account to that of Jesus Christ as. For the sake of illustration let us bring the United States of America into sharper focus and zoom in on the state of crime there. The crimes of mugging and murder are so widespread that it is difficult to keep a count of them. I remember once in New York, I tuned on a radio station which was devoted entirely to the reporting of capital crime. It was a most horrifying experi- ence. It was so painful that half an hour was the maximum I could take it, no more. Almost every five minutes a new murder was committed in America and was reported, sometimes with grisly coverage by reporters who were actually witnessing the very murder in progress. It is not our intention to present a detailed picture of crime in America, but it is a matter of common knowl- edge that today America stands among the foremost in the list of countries where all sorts of crimes are rampant; particularly in larger cities such as Chicago, New York and Washington. In New York, mugging is commonplace, as is the maiming of innocent citizens who dare to resist it. This daily occurrence creates a most obnoxious picture of mutilation and murder for paltry gains. Leaving aside, for the moment, the rising trend of crime throughout the world, in the case of America alone, one cannot fail to wonder about the relationship between the Christian