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I feel it's wrong for people who commit
crimes to try to shift the blame onto

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somebody else, onto their parents,
or onto their upbringing or living

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circumstances.

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I think that's just a cop-out.

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And my parents, my relatives, had no
knowledge of what I was doing.

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They're absolutely not responsible for any
of it in any way.

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And I take full responsibility.

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But you understand that what you did would
lead your father to ask himself all kinds

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of questions.

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That's true.

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I understand that.

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Where did I go wrong?

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Was there something I could have said or
done to have prevented this?

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Right.

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Did I in some way create or contribute to
the terrible acts my son committed?

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I understand that.

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I just get angry with other people who
think that they have a right to somehow

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try to blame my parents for what happened.

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That's not right at all.

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No one has a right to do that because
they're totally innocent.

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They had no knowledge of it.

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And that angers me.

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But parents just naturally, I mean any
parent that really cares, they just first

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of all say, I feel guilty.

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They're just feelings of guilt.

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What happened?

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What did I do?

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What could I have done?

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So that's a normal parental reaction.

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Your dad has wondered about all kinds of
things, from the medication that your mom

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was on during her pregnancy, to the fact
that you were exposed to violent arguments

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in the home from an early age and
continuing, to the possibility that he

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might have passed on some genetic
propensity for obsession or violent

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behavior.

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Does any of that ring true to you?

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I can see why he'd wonder about those
things, but as far as I'm concerned,

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they're all excuses.

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Because I didn't feel accountable to
anybody.

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I didn't feel that I had to face what I
had done ever.

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And so there comes a point where a person
has to be accountable for what he's done.

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Can't go around making excuses,
blaming other people, or other things.

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So I alone am the one who's responsible
for what's happened.

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Let me ask, when did you first feel that
everyone is accountable for their actions?

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Well, thanks to you for sending that
creation science material.

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Because I always believed the lie that
evolution is truth, the theory of

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evolution is truth, that we all just came
from the slime, and when we died,

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that was it.

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There was nothing.

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So the whole theory cheapens life,
and I started reading books that show how

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evolution is just a complete lie.

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There's no basis in science to uphold it.

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And I've since come to believe that the
Lord Jesus Christ is the true creator of

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the heavens and the earth.

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It just didn't just happen, and I have
accepted him as my Lord and Savior,

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and I believe that I, as well as everyone
else, will be accountable to him.

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Growing up, did you feel that you were
accountable to your dad or to your mom as

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the authority figure in the house?

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Yes, I did.

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I mean, they didn't let me run wild.

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They disciplined me.

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And so I felt accountable to them,
but afterwards, after I left the home,

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that's when I started wanting to sort of
create my own little world where I could

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be the one who had the complete control,
where I didn't have to bow to anyone

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else's demands, and I just took it way too
far.

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At that period of time, I had drifted away
from a belief in a supreme being,

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and I never, as a result, passed along the
feeling that we are all accountable in the

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end.

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He owns us, and that basic concept is very
fundamental to all of us.

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You feel that the absence, at least for a
while, of a strong religious faith and

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belief...

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Yes, for some years.

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...may have prevented you from instilling
some of that in Jeff.

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That's right.

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Is that how you feel?

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Yes, I think I had a big part to do with
it.

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I mean, if a person doesn't think that
there is a God to be accountable to,

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then what's the point of trying to modify
your behavior to keep it within acceptable

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ranges?

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That's how I thought, anyway.

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And I've since come to believe that the
Lord Jesus Christ is truly God,

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the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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They're the only true God.

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All the effects of evolution that I know
of are evil and wicked.

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We teach the kids they're an animal.

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We teach them there's no moral standard,
there's no absolute.

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What do you expect?

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This theory has led directly to the rise
of Communism, Humanism, Marxism,

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Nazism, Socialism, and the coming New
World Order.

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The dangers of this evolution theory.

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Folks, it's not just dumb, it's dangerous.

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You're going to be shocked to see how many
people have died because of this theory.

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Why did we fight the Vietnam War?

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Why did we fight World War II?

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Why was World War I fought?

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Why are we fighting against Communism?

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How many people did Hitler kill?

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How many did Stalin kill?

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We'll cover all that tomorrow night.