Showing posts with label Murder of Couple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Murder of Couple. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

'Evil Does Exist': Franklin Graham Responds to Murder of Couple That Thought Evil is 'Make-Believe Concept' - CBN News Emily Jones

'Evil Does Exist': Franklin Graham Responds to Murder of 
Couple That Thought Evil is 'Make-Believe Concept'
08-20-2018
CBN News Emily Jones
A young American couple was brutally murdered by alleged ISIS terrorists while biking along the 
Afghan border.

Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan quit their jobs last year and commenced a journey to see the world 
by bike. Austin wrote in his personal blog that he was tired of his ordinary life and wanted to see the 
beauty of the outdoors.

"I've grown tired of spending the best hours of my day in front of a glowing rectangle, of coloring the 
best years of my life in swaths of grey and beige. I've missed too many sunsets while my back was 
turned. Too many thunderstorms went unwatched, too many gentle breezes unnoticed." he wrote. 
Tajikistan. While in Morocco, Austin wrote on his blog that evil does not exist.

"You watch the news and you read the papers and you're led to believe that the world is a big, scary 
place. People, the narrative goes, are not to be trusted. People are bad. People are evil. People are axe 
murderers and monsters and worse...I don't buy it. Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to 
deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different 
than our own," he wrote.

Tragically, on July 29, the couple and two other cyclists were stabbed to death by terrorists on the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border.

CBS News reported that, "ISIS followed an initial claim of responsibility in print with a video showing 
the five purported attackers pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi."

The New York Post released a grainy video of the incident.

A Daewoo sedan passes the cyclists, circles back around and runs them over. Then, men get out of the 
cars and stab them. Two days later, the Islamic State released a video of the attackers sitting before an 
ISIS flag vowing to murder "disbelievers."

Evangelist Franklin Graham believes this couple's tragic death is an important lesson for everyone – 
there is in fact evil in the world and it is alive and well.

"This is evil. Be assured, evil does exist in this world; God warns us in His word that Satan is prowling 
like a roaring lion and we are to be on guard. My deepest sympathy to the families of those who were 
so tragically slain," he wrote in a Facebook post.