Hey!, Wanna See Some Sin?
"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgressions and . . . their sins." Isa. 58:1
The Angry Sins--Hatred and Murder:
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Number of Americans involved
Definitions
Details and sources
Homicides
Infanticide
Eldercide
Aggravated Assault (attempted murder)
Abortions
Euthanasia
Suicides
Hate crimes
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Child abuse and neglect
Shaken Infant Syndrome
Stalking
Underreporting of crimes
Virtual murders and real life
Immediate and long term costs
Where to get help
Number of Americans involved:
(Actual numbers will sometimes greatly exceed "official" numbers due to variations in laws, variations in methods of reporting, underreporting due to bureaucracy, politics or a combination of all of these.)
Homicides 15,517 (2000)
Murders 11,606 (2000)
Americans murdered 400,000 (1977-96)
Infanticides (ages 0-17) 1,800 (1999)
Infanticides (ages 0-5) 700 (1997)
Eldercides 574 (2000)Aggravated assault 910,744 (2000) (a.k.a. "attempted murders")
Abortions (legal) 1,210,883 (1995)
(est. 2.4 million due to underreporting)
Abortions (illegal) 100,000 to 1,000,000 (1997)
(pro-abortion groups claim higher number)
Women who have had abortions 63,354,240 (30% of all women ages 15-44) (2000)[Compare the numbers above to the World Trade Center death toll of 2,843 as of April 2002. Approx. 188 were killed in the attack on the Pentagon and 44 died on Flight 93 which crashed in PA, for a total of approx. 3,075.)
Euthanasia (assisted suicides) 27 (2000) (legal in Oregon only)
Suicides (self murder) 30,575 (1975)
Attempted suicides 764,000 (in 1975)
Living who have attempted suicide 5,000,000 (as of 1975)Hate crimes 8,154 (2000
Murderers still living (est.) 775,850 (based on homicides only)
Definitions:
murders: 5408, Gk. phonos - murder; slaughter. (Mat. 15:19; Rom. 1:29).
5407, Gk. phoneuo, [from 5406 a murderer (always of criminal or intentional homicide)], kill, murder, slay. (Mat. 19:18).
Dict. - unlawfully killing a human being with premeditated malice.
Heb. 7523, ratsach - (properly) to dash in pieces i..e. kill (a human), espec. to murder; put to death, kill, slay, murder. (Jer. 7:9)
Heb. 2026, harag, to smite with deadly intent, destroy, kill, murder, slay. (Psa. 10:8).hatred: 2189, Gk. echthra - hostility; by impl. a reason for opposition: enmity, hatred. (Gal. 5:20).
Dict. - Great dislike or aversion; detestation; active antipathy; animosity.
Heb. - 8135, sin'ah - hate; hateful, hatred (Pro. 10:12).hate: 2130, Heb. sane, to hate (personally), (Ex. 20:5)
3404, Gk. miseo, to detest (espec. to persecute), hate(ful).Hatred is an emotion. According to Christ, hate toward others is equivalent to murder.
"You have heard that it was said by them of old time, You shall not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca ["worthless"], shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, You fool ["stupid"], shall be in danger of hell fire." (Mat. 5:21-22).
In other words, publicly expressing contempt for someone could have resulted in a penalty, but holding a "hateful contempt", a spirit of murder, endangers one's eternal life."You shall not hate your brother in your heart: . . ." (Lev. 19:17).
"Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him." (1 Jn. 3:15).
Hate toward God is demonstrated by idolatry Ex. 20:5. It is a failure to keep his commandments. (Ex. 20:6)anger: 3709 orge Gk., prop. desire (as a reaching forth or excitement of the mind), i.e. (by anal.) violent passion (ire, or [justifiable] abhorrence); by impl. punishment: anger, indignation, vengeance, wrath. (Col. 3:8).
Heb. 639, aph, the nose or nostril; hence the face, and ire -- (from the rapid breathing in passion). (Gen. 49:6-7).
angry: 3710 orgizo, Gk., to provoke or enrage, become exasperated. (Mat. 5:22).
Heb. 639, aph, (see "anger" above), (Pro. 14:17, 22:24, 29:22).Dict. -- a strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism.
Anger, ire, rage, fury, indignation and wrath mean an intense emotional state induced by displeasure. ANGER, the most general term, names the reaction but in itself conveys nothing about intensity or justification or manifestation of the emotional state. IRE, more frequent in literary contexts, may suggest greater intensity than anger, often with an evident display of feeling. RAGE suggests loss of self-control from violence of emotion. FURY is overmastering destructive rage that can verge on madness. INDIGNATION stresses righteous anger at what one considers unfair, mean, or shameful. WRATH is likely to suggest a desire or intent to revenge or punish.[See also, "Is An "Angry Christian" An Oxymoron?".]
wrath: 2372, Gk. thumos - passion (as if breathing hard); fierceness, indignation, wrath.(Gal. 5:20).
Dict. - violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; an angry act.
Heb. - 5678, ebrah - an outburst of passion; anger, rage, wrath (Gen. 49:7).variance: 2054, Gk. eris - a quarrel, i.e. (by impl.) wrangling; contention, debate, strife, variance. (Gal. 5:20).
Dict.- difference, disagreement, discord, or dissension.Variance is verbal warfare. It is our insistence in imposing ourselves, our ideas and our will on others rather than seeking the benefit of others. It is seeking our own will rather than the will of God. It is the opposite of peace.
debates: 2054 (same as variance, above). (2 Cor. 12:20).
railer: 3060, loidoros; [from loidos, mischief], abusive, a rude or unscrupulous person, a person who uses foul or abusive language (1 Cor. 5:11).strife: 2052, Gk. eritheia - (properly) intrigue, i.e. (by impl.) faction; contention, strife.(Gal. 5:20).
Dict. - The striving or contending of opposing parties; contention, quarreling, fighting, or conflict; discord, dissension, or variance as between members of a family. A quarrel, struggle, clash, or dispute.Heb. 4808, meriybah, quarrel, provocation, strife. (Num. 27:14)
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Details and sources:
Homicide Offenses
"Definition-The killing of one human being by another.
A. Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter
Definition-The willful (nonnegligent) killing of one human being by another.
As a general rule, any death due to injuries received in a fight, argument, quarrel, assault, or
commission of a crime is classified in this category. Although offenders may be charged with
lesser offenses, e.g., manslaughter, if the killing was "willful" or intentional it must be reported as
Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter. The findings of a court, coroner's inquest, etc., do not
affect the reporting of offenses in this category; these are law enforcement statistics.
Suicides, accidental deaths, assaults to murder, traffic fatalities, and attempted murders are not
classified as Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter. Situations where a victim dies of a heart
attack as a result of a robbery or witnessing a crime likewise do not meet the criteria for inclusion
in this classification. A heart attack cannot, in fact, be caused at will by an offender. Even in
instances where an individual is known to have a weak heart, there is no assurance that an
offender can cause sufficient emotional or physical stress to guarantee the victim will suffer a
fatal heart attack. Suicides, traffic fatalities, and fetal deaths are totally excluded from the UCR
Program, while some accidental deaths are counted as Negligent Manslaughter. Assaults to
murder and attempted murders are classified as Aggravated Assaults.
B. Negligent Manslaughter
Definition-The killing of another person through negligence.
Included in this offense are killings resulting from hunting accidents, gun cleaning, children
playing with guns, etc. Not included are deaths of persons due to their own negligence; accidental
deaths not resulting from gross negligence; and accidental traffic fatalities. Again, the subsequent
findings of a court, coroner's inquest, etc., do not affect the reporting of offenses in this category;
these are law enforcement statistics.
C. Justifiable Homicide
Definition-The killing of a perpetrator of a serious criminal offense by a peace officer in the line
of duty; or the killing, during the commission of a serious criminal offense, of the perpetrator by a
private individual.
Justifiable homicide is not an actual "offense" and is not included in an agency's crime counts."
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:NdzrbqW8dqQC:www.tbi.state.tn.us/test/Dv_FY2000-ss.pdf+at
tempted+murders%22,+%22attempted+homicides%22&hl=en
Murders:
"Murders" includes only murder and non-negligent manslaughter. It does not include killing of fetuses or accidental killing of bystanders during a crime, or a number of other types of killing.
Copyright 1997-2001 The Disaster Center, Source: FBI, Uniform Crime Reports
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/00cius.htm
A study of pregnancy-associated mortality found that homicide was the leading cause of death among pregnant women. Twenty percent of pregnant women who died during this period ['93-'98] were murdered.
Horon, Isabelle, Chome, Diana. (2001). "Enhanced Surveillance for Pregnancy-Associated Mortality--Maryland, 1993-1998". JAMA 225 (11): 1455- 1459.
"According to homicide statistics collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 32% of the 3419 women killed in the USA in 1998, the latest year for which data are available, died at the hands of a husband, a former husband, a boyfriend, or a former boyfriend. Many experts, however, believe that the true figure is much higher, perhaps as much as 50% to 70%."
http://www.baylordallas.edu/proceedings/13_2/13_2_roberts.htm
Infanticide:
"Homicide is the only major cause of childhood deaths that has increased over the past three decades. In 1999, some 1,800 juveniles, or 3 per 100,000 of the U.S. juvenile population, were homicide victims—a rate substantially higher than those of other developed countries."
http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/homicidechildrenyouth.pdfOf all children age 5 and under, 61% were killed by their own parents.
Note: Parents includes stepparents.
Of all children under age 5 murdered from 1976-99 --
31% were killed by fathers
30% were killed by mothers
23% were killed by male acquaintances
6% were killed by other relatives
3% were killed by strangers
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/children.htm
Eldercides:
In 2000, 574 eldercides were committed.
Federal Bureau of Investigation. (2000). Crime in the United States, 2000. Washington, D.C.: Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice.
http://www.ncvc.org/stats/references.htm
Aggravated Assault (attempted murder):
"Definition-an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm.
The categories of aggravated assault (4.a.-d.) include the following commonly entitled offenses: assaults or attempts to kill or murder; poisoning; assault with a dangerous or deadly weapon; maiming, mayhem, assault with explosives; and all attempts to commit the foregoing offenses. In other words, all assaults by one person upon another with the intent to kill, maim, or inflict sever bodily injury with the use of any dangerous weapon are classified under one of the aggravated assault categories. It is not necessary that injury result from an aggravated assault when a gun, knife, or other weapon is used when could and probably would result in serious personal injury if the crime were successfully completed."
". . . excerpted from the UCR Handbook (the most recent standard edition, published in 1984)."http://www.campussafety.org/schools/cleryact/ucrhandbook.html#1 (Emphasis ours)
This amounts to a "softer" name for attempted murder."Aggravated assault: attack with intent of inflicting severe bodily injury, usually with a weapon-excludes simple assault (assault without a weapon resulting in little or no injury)."
Scientific American: By the Numbers: Measuring Bad Behavior:
http://www.sciam.com/2001/0901issue/0901numbers.html
Abortions:
"In 1995, the CDC reported a total of 1,210,883 legal abortions in the US.
From 1970-1995, the number of reported legal abortions in the United States totaled 26,245,102."
This does not include illegal or self-induced abortions. These numbers appear to be underreported by 25% to 50% due to non-reporting and variations in state laws.
http://www.cdc.gov
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3024498.html
"Half of the six million pregnancies that occur in the United States each year are unintended. About half of unintended pregnancies occur among the 10% of women at risk of an unintended pregnancy who do not use birth control (particularly teenagers and older married women) or who use a method only sporadically. The rest occur among women who practice contraception to prevent an unwanted pregnancy."
"Excluding miscarriages, 49% of the pregnancies concluding in 1994 were unintended; 54% of these ended in abortion. Forty-eight percent of women aged 15-44 in 1994 had had at least one unplanned pregnancy sometime in their lives; 28% had had one or more unplanned births, 30% had had one or more abortions . . ."Note that 30% of all women aged 15-44 had at least one abortion sometime in their lives (1994). Using the 2000 Census, that translates to 63,354,240 women who have had at least one abortion. Many have more than one.
". . . , 43% of women will have had an abortion by age 45."
The census shows a current population of 143,368,343 women with an increase of 1,500,000 per year.
"Between 1987 and 1994, the rate of unintended pregnancy fell from 54 pregnancies per 1,000 women of reproductive age to 45 per 1,000, a decrease of 16%. A likely explanation for the decline in unintended pregnancy is an increase in widespread and effective contraceptive use."
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3002498.html
http://factfinder.census.gov/bf/_lang=en_vt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_DP1_geo_id=01000US.html
Euthanasia:
In Oregon, 27 people died in the year 2000 from lethal overdoses of controlled substances deliberately prescribed by physicians under its assisted suicide law.
http://www.euthanasia.com/oregonstudy.html
In some states, assisting in a suicide is considered manslaughter.From 1992-98, Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted in approximately 110 suicides.
http://www.internationaltaskforce.org/kevv.htm
He is serving a 10 to 25 year prison sentence, in Michigan, for second degree murder.
http://www.internationaltaskforce.org/jk.htm
Islam forbids suicide and assisted suicide.
http://islamicity.com/Science/euthanas.shtml
The Catholic Church declared itself against suicide and euthanasia in 1980.
http://www.priestsforlife.org/euthanasia/euthrefl.html
Judaism rejects rejects homicide, suicide, and assisted suicide.
http://www.sfhs.edu/critint/v5_n2/mackler.htm
Information on euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, living wills and mercy killing.
http://www.euthanasia.com/index.html
Suicide, (Self-Murder):
While this is not usually thought of as a "hate" crime or "murder", it is still the "taking of a life". It usually causes intense pain and suffering for the "survivors" and is a "selfish" act, showing a lack of love (i.e. "hate") toward others. This would not include those who are in severe pain and are being kept alive artificially, and who would prefer to be allowed to die peacefully and quickly.
In 1997, in the U.S., 30,575 people killed themselves, 1.8 times as many as were killed by others. It is the 8th leading cause of death for all Americans and the 3rd leading cause for young people aged 15-24. The total includes 324 children under the age of 15 years. For every successful suicide, an estimated 25 others seriously attempt it. The daily averages are 2,095 attempted suicides with 83 successfully ending their lives. That means that each year, approximately 764,000 people try to kill themselves. An estimated 5,000,000 living Americans have attempted suicide at least once. Some who are unsuccessful, make repeated attempts.
From 1974 to 1998, there were 732,000 successful suicides.
Hate Crimes:In 2000, 8,154 hate crime incidents were reported to the police. Sixty-five percent of hate motivated offenses were offenses against persons, 34% were against property, and 0.6% were against society.[73]
Of reported hate crimes, 54% were motivated by race, 18% by religion,16% by sexual orientation, 11% by ethnicity, 0.4% by disability, and 8 incidents had multiple biases.[74]
The number of anti-Semitic incidents that 44 states and the District of Columbia reported to the Anti-Defamation League was 1,606. This represents a 4% increase over a year.[75]
Of anti-Semitic incidents in 2000, 877 (54.6%) were acts of harassment (intimidation, threats, and assaults) and 729 (45.4%) were acts of vandalism (property damage as well as arson and cemetery desecration).[76]
There were 2,151 incidents against 2,475 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals in 2000. These incidents were committed by 3,344 offenders.[78]
There were 602 active hate groups, and 194 active "Patriot" groups in 2000. Activity included marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting, publishing literature or criminal acts.[81]
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/ncvrw/2002/pdftxt/statisticaloverview.txt
The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles tallies even more, monitoring over 2,100 hate sites on the Internet.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hatecrimes.html
What is a "hate crime"?"Sterilized from emotion, hate crime, also called bias crime, is those offenses motivated in part or
singularly by personal prejudice against others because of a diversity—race, sexual orientation,
religion, ethnicity/national origin, or disability."" . . . 8,063 bias-motivated criminal incidents (8,055 single-bias and 8 multiple-bias incidents) to the FBI in 2000. The incidents consisted of 9,430 separate offenses, 9,924 victims, and 7,530 known distinguish-able offenders. According to the data collected, 53.8 percent of the 8,055 single-bias incidents were motivated by racial bias, 18.3 percent by religious bias, 16.1 percent by sexual-orientation bias, 11.3 percent by ethnicity/national origin bias, and 0.5 percent by disability and multiple biases.
In 2000, 65.0 percent of the 9,430 hate crime offenses reported were attributed to crimes against
persons. Crimes against property made up 34.4 percent of the total, and crimes against society com-posed 0.6 percent.As in previous years, intimidation was the most frequently reported hate crime, accounting for 34.9 percent of the total hate crime offenses reported. Destruction/damage/vandalism of property made up 29.3 percent of the total; simple assault, 17.1 percent; and aggravated assault, 12.6 percent. The remaining offenses accounted for 6.1 percent.
Uniform Crime Reports, Hate Crime Statistics, 2000
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
Since all crimes are a failure to demonstrate love, all crimes are actually "hate crimes". The current legal definition would be more properly called "prejudice crimes"."