Alan S. Austin
Arizona Playwright • Writer • Poet
  

Rittenhouse (11/16)

If only Jesus had been carrying an AK47, he might have saved the world so much trouble, riding into Jerusalem with the gun strapped to his back. With one pull of the trigger, the pesky foreign Roman invaders would have gotten what was coming to them. Jesus believed in justice and was willing to die for it, just like young Mr. Rittenhouse who was only seventeen when he was attacked. Not that he was looking for trouble. He was just walking through an area given over to rioting. As a Christian he knows 'thou shalt not kill' but wants to defend people. Jesus was 33 when he made his stand. The authorities arrested him and whipped him and executed him. The trial was a farce. No jury. Just a mob screaming for his death. Like Christ, Rittenhouse was out there defending the innocent, putting his life on the line, killing rioters. He should be seen as the instrument of God's justice, the hand of Jesus, the lamb of God newly emerged from the womb willing to defend mankind against the scourge of the lawless antifa insurrectionists. The police knew that. They gave him water. Rittenhouse gave the world justice. He's white and Christian. Guns don't kill people. Unfortunately, Ideas do.