Normally for Be Forreal Tuesday, there is something that can be at least construed as funny. You know, a day-lightener of sorts. Today, however, is not like that. The story you see linked here is one I actually saw tweeted this morning and it left me extremely sad, and a bit angry. It is, in a nutshell, more evidence of the fall and depravity of man. I post it as a Be Forreal moment, in part because it's really hard to fathom a crowd behaving and responding to a man and his hopelessness the way this one did. Are you serious? Laughter, taunting and encouraging a man to jump to his death for the entertainment of a crowd? Yes; it happened. There are a number of lessons to be learned from this incidents, and even more Gospel implications to be drawn from it. How would you have responded as this man stood atop a ledge for nearly an hour? Are there ledges of a different sort that many around us are standing on at this moment? What would make a group consider their own entertainment more valuable than a human life? What sorts of things entertain us? This is one of the sadder (and not the first incident of its kind) moments in recent memory. It speaks volumes of where we are as a "civilized" society. It speaks even higher volumes about this society's great need for Christ and His Gospel. Terrible. Be Forreal people, you cannot be serious.........
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