While checking the news, trying to find something that isn’t political, I read more details of the 73 year old Austrian man who had locked his daughter up in a basement apartment and repeatedly raped her.

This happened over a period of 24 years, starting when she was just 18 years old. He had been molesting her since she was 11.

She had given birth to seven of his children, but one twin died and he disposed of it in the family furnace.

One child got sick and she was able to go to the hospital with her, and so her story got out and she got out of captivity.

The monster who is the father and grandfather to her children, and his wife took care of three of the children. Supposedly the wife knew nothing except her daughter had disappeared.

How her husband explained the appearance of children on their doorstep is beyond me.

That’s not the point though. The point is this is not the first case we have heard about coming from Austria, but I’m sure it’s happening all over the world, including our own country.

We have allowed God to be pushed out of our lives to the extent that something like this shocks us but then we hear of another case like it.

Europeans as a majority do not believe in a living God. In America we are hearing the same thing from people. We are abandoning God and we wonder why we are having the problems in the world we have.

If someone speaks up and says he or she is a practicing Christian that person is ridiculed as though he or she has been brainwashed, all the while being told to be “tolerant” of others’ beliefs.

Well, I am tolerant, but I hate to see them go to hell. I also know that all I can do is pray the Holy Spirit will convict their hearts of the sin we were all born with and they will confess Jesus Christ as their Savior.

Jesus told us He was the only way to God the Father. We can’t get to God or Heaven through good works, Buddha, Allah, Shintoism, Hinduism or any other faith that rejects Jesus as the crucified Messiah Who died in place of us. He died so we might live eternally with Him and the Father, which is what God planned all along.

Until and unless we acknowledge God and His Sovereignty we will continue to hear things as horrible as this and worse.

If just one person thinks about this and decides to dedicate his or her life to Jesus, it will be worth every minute spent on this blog by all the various people who make it run.

If you want to make a decision for Christ look on our sidebar and you will see a link to a site called Do You Know?

It will tell you how to be born again, and if you need more help please call a pastor and he will be glad to talk with you.

Written by ~J~

2 Responses to “A Shocking, Horrifying and Sad Story”

1. Sue says:

   April 28, 2008 at 11:07 am

   This piece is, in todays climate, great food for thought.

   How someone such as this man can live with himself on this earth let alone wonder about his salvation (if he has ever even given it a thought) is beyond me.
2. kalashnikat says:

   May 5, 2008 at 2:27 pm

   A man who could do such a thing is a monster, all “self” and no soul. But don’t assume that it’s happening all over…There are hundreds of millions of good fathers and good men out there, you seem inclined to say, this is awful and there must be more of it going on everywhere…
   For destroying so many lives, we should let God be his judge, but let’s make the Court date appointment for him, and soon.