“And the king [Saul] said unto the footman that stood about him, Turn and slay the priests of the LORD…” (1 Samuel 22)

 

Those that know me know I enjoy Sherlock Holmes and Professional Wrestling and have so for years.  Both have taught me a lot and have been very instumental in my life. I have never found baseball, football, basketball (with the exception of when my daughters play and that goes for volleyball and my future son-in-law’s (DV) soccer) or any other sports very entertaining. Amateur wrestling, Mixed Martial Arts, Pro wrsetling have been of interest though.  What does pro wrestling and Holmes have to do with our titles and our quoted text?

In the current rendition of Sherlock Holmes from BBC, in which Benedict Cumberbatch plays Holmes, he has seaid and claimed to be a “High Functioning Sociopath.”  In the WWE, there is a wrestler that is called the “Scottish Psycopath.” These are term that are grossly misapplied. Neither are Holmes or the WWE wrestler pathological.  Both show far to much concern and care for others to be what they claim to be.  Both these fictional characters have a large amount of merchandise available. The misapplied terms are available on t-shirts, and other items.  This is dangerouse. This is dangerouse because it removes the concern one (1) should have for the true socio/psychopaths.

Among the true socio/psychopaths in history are:
*Albert Fish: This man and I call him man and not monster because to call him monster is to be unScriptural. This man kidnapped, molested, killed, and ate little children. Fish would send letters to the parents telling them what was done to their children.  This man had his own children, too.  He “loved” his children while taking the children of others.

*Ed Gein: This man operated in the fifties (50’s). Norman Bates and many other movie monsters find their origin in this man.  This man was raised by a domineering and religiously legalistic mother.  This man dug his dead mother up and kept her in his care.  Gein would kill women and would use their parts to “decorate” his home. His bowls were the top half of human skulls, his lamp shades were of human skin, and he wore an apron that was cut from a woman’s frontal section, private parts and all.

*H.H. Holmes or Henry Mudgett: Was active during the Worlds Fair in early Chicago. This man made a hotel and turned it into a chamber of horrors.  Rooms would have knock out gas let in and it would do it’s job, leaving the person in the room unconscious and they would then be taken and Mudgett would have his wicked way with them.

Henry Lee Lucas: Lucas’ mother was a prostitute, moonshiner, and  would make Lucas dress as a girl she made him wear a dress to his first day at school, this he alleges, but is doubted. The reprobate mother would also force Lucas and his brother to fornicate in the homosexual way. One (1) of Lucas’ brothers stabbed Lucas in the eye, causing blindness in that eye.  You see, Reader, this is how a textbook sociopath is made. One (1) of Lucas’ last victims was the son of John Walsh, yes, that John Walsh from “America’s Most Wanted.”

*There is of course, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgeway (Green River), Dennis Rador (BTK), Jeff Dahmer, and many others.  These men have left a trail of misery, murder, dismemberment, heartbreak, and loss behind them.

You can see why misapplying the term socio/psychopath to Holmes and pro-wrestlers can be dangerous.  if a hero like Holmes is a high functioning sociopath, then how bad and how dangerous can a sociopath be, really?  The wrestler that is coined the Scottish Psychopath, is cheered by many so how dangerous can a psychopath be?

Let’s Define Our Terms:
*The sociopath is made in the laboratory of an unloving and abusive environment.
*The psychopath is born. The psychopath is born with a brain deficiency. The frontal lobe that control impulse is missing. However, if a person receives a hard enough impact to one’s (1’s) frontal lobe, one (1) can have a pathological change in personality.  Any kind of trauma  to the frontal lobe can change a person’s personality into a psychopathic personality.

The pathological, whether made or born is characterized by the absence of a conscience and having a certain charm about him or her and they come in both sexes.  All others live to serve the purposes and pleasures of the pathological.  The pathological views others as being present to be utilized to their liking and can be tossed away when finished.

There is no difference to the pathological between a person or a tissue or a washing machine.  The non-pathological (hopefully you and me) will use a tissue and toss it away and will not give thought to it again. We use a washing machine, when not in use, we do not think about it. and when it breaks down, we throw it out and buy a new one. We do not ever sit around and think about the good ole days with the other washing machine, do we?  This is how the pathological views you and me.

The pathological person, the person without a conscience is drawn to the position of authority. Positions like CEO, Politician, and I’m sorry to say, Leadership in the faith. There are many pathologicals in CEO positions, in government, and in the ministry. This is why and how a CEO can terminate thousands (1000’s) of jobs, this is how politicians can act as they do and vote as they do, and how preachers can build kingdoms unto themselves and lord themselves over the flock of Christ.

Having defined our terms let us look a possible pathologicals in Scripture: 
*King Saul:  King Saul certainly had charm, he was certainly capable of very wicked and atrocious actions.  The murder of the seven-nine (79) priests of the LORD. Notice from our text above, these priests are not called priests only but priests of the LORD. The LORD Who was once Saul’s LORD, but the LORD would reject him. This man would also, after all he has done, whine about no one caring for him.

*Absolom: Absolom was a son of David and it is written concerning Absolom that David never chastened Absolom. This son of David would betray David, his father as Lucifer had betrayed his God and as Judas would betray the Lord jesus. Absolom would cause the people to come to him instaed of David when seeking counsel and he would tell them what they wanted to hear. The people fell in love with or rather fell for Absolom’s machinations. David would have to escape with his life and would live in exile again for a time.  Absolom would find his end at the point of a knife, while hanging by his hair in a tree, hence doth not nature itself say a man should have short hair.

*Herod: Anyone who could have all male children under the age of two (2) murdered   should definitely make our list. Many of the royalty in Scripture could be suspect. A   pathological can be known by it’s fruit and lack of emotion, sympathy, and empathy.

*Pharoah: Though this king showed something at the death of his son, it couldd be   argued that he was trouble by his line possibly ending and not the loss itself. Anyone   who could put others into chains, bondage, and slavery should be suspect.

Cult leaders: Cult leader like Jim Jones, Warren Jeffs, and of course, Charles Manson, are certainly suspect and should find a spot on anyone’s list of sociopaths and pychopaths.

*Warren Jeffs is a man of (s)atan, there can be no doubt.  This man is a product of mormonism. This wicked man sodomized young, very young boys within his own family. One (1) of these boys would kill himself years later. This worker of iniquities would marry young , very, very young girls in there very early teens and maybe even younger.  This reprobate would fix marriages between men and very young girls. The cult leaders are wicked in their own ways. Jeffs is in prison and still runs his cult from behind bars. One (1) day he will die and enter into his fiery and flaming reward. God shall be glorified by this man’s utter and perpetual and eternal torment.

*Jim Jones: Jim Jones is the origin of the saying, “Drinking the Kool Aid,” came from. This self-filled man used kool-aid to kill nine-hundred (900) persons: men, women, and children. Jones built his cult in Guyana and named it, “Jones Town.”  Naming a town after one’s self is certainly a red flag and should be suspect and put on a list. This cult leader also had a sitting senator murdered.  Jim Jones was a god unto himself but he died like men and is in Hell.

*Manson: This man is the poster boy for cult leaders and sociopaths and I do not think anyone would dispute that. I think most of you, Readers, know about this man. This very cerebral sociopath is now in Hell. This man ruined many, many, many lives.  Many are in prison because of this man’s charm and subtility. This man was the spitting image of his father, a liar and a murderer from the beginning of his worthless, but destructive life. His mother was a prostitute. This man left carnage in his wake wherever he would go. This man’s murders by proxy in the sixties (60’s) was a temper tantrum. Manson would lay waste to so many because he didn’t get a recording contract. This cult leader is the antithesis to our Lord even in name….  Manson or son [of] man.

It is estimated that one (1) in twenty-five (25) persons are sociopatho-logical.

If you like, watch “Ferris Bueller’s Day off” and you will see a sociopath at work.

Godspeed.