Ones World View

In this first news letter I would like to deal with ones world view. Ever person has a view whether they realize it or not. It’s your perception of the world and the events that occur in it. I like to think of it as what a person chooses to do in a given situation.
For example suppose you have the opportunity to steal a considerable amount of money knowing that you would not get caught. Would you? The answer to that question indicates a world view.
Other ways our view comes out is in our behavior towards others. For example if you have been wronged how do you respond? Our view comes from our ideas. Our ideas dictate our behavior through thoughts and feelings. Therefore our ideas concerning reality or our perception of reality are paramount to how we act and interact with others.
The idea that we have evolved is one that is accepted by many as reality. And there are consequences in that world view. I will deal with some of those issues in future letters. For now I wish to have you consider some new ideas. Evolution proposes that all things have come into being by chance and random processes to produce the incredible complexity that we see around us, especially in living systems. Those that hold that view say that all things started from nothing. I’m not sure what nothing is. Others say that there always was matter and with the help of a big bag, billions of years ago things started moving and some how from matter life began. Now that view takes some faith; that is one must accept that as a presupposition for the rest of the theory, and it is a theory. However this idea has become so firmly entrenched in our education system that most people believe it to be true. End of discussion.
And if you hold to the idea of a great designer you’re considered ignorant, or a bigoted Christian fundamentalist. Yet there are literally thousands of scientist, physicist, and others that reject this theory. In the future I will supply you with information about those men and women who reject evolution because they have learned to think and recognize the difference between scientific facts, which can be observed in the present, and ideas about the past which can be used to interrupt the facts.
When you observe a 747 in the sky what do you think? It certainly took energy and power to put it together; but even more than that it took intelligence; a mind! The complexity of that 747; its design, complexity, functionality, does not come close to any warm blooded creature great or small that walks the earth. The real questions are; did matter create mind (intelligence) or did a mind create matter ? We will consider more in my next letter. Please do not be offended. If you disagree lets discuss. Go to my blog and make a comment.

Knowledge

Who decides whats right or wrong. Several years ago I investigated a triple homocide. A father killed his three children who were all under the age of two. During the interview he stated it was the right thing to do. As far as he was concerned laws are man made and that makes them arbitrary. Those in power decide what has value and worth. What do you think and why? What do base your opinion on?

Officers Wear Shield of Faith

In 1984, a group of Cape May County peace officers, most of them policemen, had started a new organization dedicated to promoting Jesus Christ to other police officers and to addressing social issues in general.

President of the Cape May chapter is Lower Township Det. Jack Trombetta who believes a scriptural influence can help a policeman in handling the everyday stress of the job. "The object of the organization is to bring others to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ." said Trombetta who belongs to Covenant Bible Church in Lower Township. "We will promote Christian maturity and growth through bible teaching and will conduct and promote Christian fellowship between law enforcement agencies."
The group has had meetings on social issues at which it showed a film on abortion and presented the secular and Biblical views on why there are other alternatives then abortion.

"We believe, God willing,that this ministry will have impact on especially on our young people who may have the wrong idea of the functions of a police officer."
The Gazette

Lessons to Remember

Jack Trombetta dissected details of murder for a quarter-century as a detective. In that time, he helped unravel more than 30 homicides, guided by an instinct to piece together the minutiae of forced death. In 1997, Jack retired from the force, trading his police cruiser for a classroom. While he studied to become a teacher, one subject in particular sparked again what he says is his "innate compulsion" to solve crimes: the Holocaust. "It was the ultimate crimes." "It is the study of mass murder. I still have the police instinct. I want to know as much as I can....so I can teach my students that hating a people can lead to extermination of a people."

His interest led him to become one of 40 people to enroll in the inaugural class of a graduate degree program in Holocaust and genocide studies at Richard Stockton College in Pomona. It is the first master's program of its kind in the nation. Jack was also chosen to participate in their unique fellowship program for teachers to study " The Holocaust and Jewish Resistance" in Israel, with a stop in Poland. Trombetta takes the lessons from Stockton and boils them down so his students can draw a link between the Holocaust and current events. In one of his classes at Cape May County Schools for Special Services, he delivered a lesson on Adolf Hilter's youth in almost breathless sentences. Every once in awhile, he got consumed in a story, relating his experiences as an officer with that day's lesson on the Holocaust, and stop talking. "I'm sorry," he said.

"I get excited about this stuff. Where was I?" Before his students could pipe in, he started up again, asking whether they have blamed someone for their problems, used others as a scapegoats the way Hilter did with the Jews. Or whether they ever felt discriminated against because of their looks, pointing the question toward one girl with dreadlocks and a boy wearing a cowboy hat. "You have to make it relevant for them." "I feel like a crusader trying to impact the next generation."