God Will Raise Up a Thorn
God’s Thorn Against the Wicked: The Allegory of Christopher Scarver and Jeffrey Dahmer On November 28, 1994, in the confines of Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, a convicted murderer named Christopher Scarver wielded a metal bar and ended the life of Jeffrey Dahmer, one of history’s most notorious serial killers. Dahmer, responsible for the gruesome murders, mutilations, and desecrations of 17 men and boys, was a figure of unparalleled wickedness. Scarver, himself no saint, later claimed he acted on a divine mission, believing God had tasked him with punishing a “monster” who showed no remorse. While we cannot know…