It's Thursday, May the 9th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins

with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. Black holes are

objects in the universe with a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape from them. Stellar black holes

are formed by the collapse of individual stars, while supermassive black holes are found at the

centers of most galaxies. The one at the center of our Milky Way has a mass of around 4.3 million times, that of our sun.

Now, NASA has produced a simulation in which the viewer begins around 400 million miles from a

supermassive black hole and rapidly falls toward it. Light and time both warp around you.

Unfortunately, however, you have only 12.8

seconds before you die by what physicists call spaghettiification. Your body is pulled apart

atom by atom. There are days when it seems this is happening to our culture. For example,

I was shocked to read that pro-Palestinian protesters

disrupted a solemn remembrance march to honor the victims of Nazi atrocities in Auschwitz.

Some of the protesters even wore yellow badges resembling those forced on Jews by the Nazis.

This time last year, could you have even imagined such a horrific scene? One reason anti-Semitic protests persist is that there has typically

been so little accountability for them. Many protesters even wear masks to hide their identities.

Others insist on amnesty for their actions. By contrast,

where authorities have enforced their time, place, and manner restrictions, order has prevailed.

There's a lesson here Christians can especially embrace and offer our broken culture.

Criminology experts tell us that deterrence measures discourage people from committing crimes

to the degree they guarantee swift punishment with a severity proportional to the crime committed.

The certainty of being caught has proven to be an even more powerful deterrent than the

punishment that follows.

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