Some Thoughts on the Recent Wal-Mart Stampede.

For those of you who haven’t been keeping up with the news these last few days, A New York Wal-Mart employee by the name of Jdimytai Damour was trampled to death by Black Friday shoppers intent on getting a bargain on their Christmas purchases this weekend. When the doors were open for business, the mob literally stampeded in, trampling multiple individuals, including Damour, a pregnant woman, Wal-Mart employees trying to help Damour, and various others.

Stampede is a term normally used to describe cattle or other animals, not human beings.

There was a time when even a crowd of several thousand, such as was waiting outside Wal-Mart Friday, would have been a calm, patient and courteous group. They would have been in the “Christmas Spirit” wishing each other a “Merry Christmas” and discussing excitedly the coming days of shopping and imagining the gifts that they would find for their loved ones and friends. When the doors opened for business, the group would have politely and courteously filed in and begun to do their early bird shopping.

Times have certainly changed, haven’t they? When the management announced over the loudspeakers that the store was closing due to the death of the employee, shoppers became irate and some callously continued to shop, not caring that the group they had just been a part of had brutally taken the life of another human being. An article I read said “Items on sale at the Valley Stream Wal-Mart included a Samsung 50-inch Plasma HDTV for $798, a Bissel Compact Upright Vacuum for $28, a Samsung 10.2 megapixel digital camera for $69 and DVDs such as "The Incredible Hulk" for $9.”
These “bargains” were evidently worth more than the life of a store employee.
The Holy Spirit of God is sometimes called the restrainer. Notice He is not called the preventer. All who have been reborn through faith have the Spirit of God within them. He is the One Who guides us morally and convicts us of our wrongdoing. He encourages us to do good to others, to be kind, to be patient, to be selfless.

Animals do not have the Spirit of God within them.

It is animals that do not have morals. They don’t put others above themselves.
It is animals that see what they want, and fight to get it.
It is animals that kill and abandon their young.
It is animals that have sex with whatever and whenever they want to.
It is animals that prey on the weak and will often kill those weakest and sickly among them.
It is animals that have no regard for the wounded among them.
It is animals that will savagely attack when cornered or prevented from doing what they want to do.

Animals don’t voluntarily take punishment or death for an idea.
Animals don’t stop to help a stranger in need.
Animals don’t put their own lives in danger to help another.

God is being rejected by his creations. They have determined that He either never existed, or no longer exists. Christians are despised and ridiculed. God is blasphemed. Human beings are becoming more and more self-focused, with a “me first” mentality.

Evolutionists have been telling us for years that we’re nothing more than animals. Without God, that’s exactly what we are.

Evolutionists also tell us we’re getting better and better.

Tell that to the family of Jdimytai Damour.