Recently, total strangers have been fighting each other, usually in fast food restaurants. These tragic incidents have been caught on video, have been posted on the Internet, and “have gone viral.”
This has happened at McDonald’s, at Burger King, at IHOP, at Denny’s. Even on the subway (not the restaurant-not yet at least-but the underground railway system), total strangers have been fighting each other.
Some of these seem to be racially motivated. Others not.
The ancient Christians used to talk about the Seven Deadly Sins-one of which was anger. Now, this deadly sin is proving deadly or nearly deadly.
Recently, two female teenage patrons of McDonald’s in Baltimore County allegedly beat up a stranger until she was apparently having epileptic seizures. She was rushed to the hospital.
In Panama City, Florida, a patron had it her way at Burger King-and that was precisely the problem.
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While I believe that the deterioration of the place of religion, in particular Christianity, in US culture may be a significant contributing factor to these outbursts of violence, I do not believe that it is the sole factor behind them.
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