This is the best commentary I have read so far. He points out that it is not the method of killing (guns, cars, bombs, whatever) that is at fault, but the people and the society behind it.
Whether they're mentally ill (which most of them are) or consciously and willingly evil, they are being manipulated by evil.
Daniel Greenfield is a Jewish writer firmly embedded in Judaism and thus in the history of Christian civilizations, and he knows whereof he speaks.
CS Lewis said that the great triumph of the Devil (evil) was to make us think he doesn't exist.
But evil is real, and in our disordered society, we're seeing it every day - unopposed.
1 posted on
06/01/2022 1:13:03 PM PDT by
livius
To: livius
... the people and the society behind it.
In our current society, two generations of masses of fatherless children.
2 posted on
06/01/2022 1:18:28 PM PDT by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: livius
I read him when I run across his columns.
3 posted on
06/01/2022 1:23:37 PM PDT by
sauropod
(What we’re living through is not an unintentional accident: it’s the American Holodomor.)
To: livius
To: livius
5 posted on
06/01/2022 1:25:49 PM PDT by
Born in 1950
(Anti left, nothing else.)
To: livius
Modern people are unwilling to believe in G-d, and so they believe instead in government. And they are convinced that the god of government can fix everything if we only give it the power. Yep, and there is evil in society, and lots of it in government.
6 posted on
06/01/2022 1:25:50 PM PDT by
1Old Pro
To: livius
What do people who don’t believe in evil do?
They start a civil war to keep human beings as Slaves
They institute Segregation to keep others out of their lives
They institute Jim Crow Laws to keep people in their place
They create the KKK to violently enforce all of the above
They become DEMONRATS
8 posted on
06/01/2022 1:27:02 PM PDT by
eyeamok
(founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
To: livius
“The Left believes that government is god and it conceives of evil as disobedience to government. The gun control debate reduces evil to the NRA and anyone who won’t obey and hand over their guns”
9 posted on
06/01/2022 1:33:34 PM PDT by
Paladin2
To: livius
If people were capable of truly recognizing evil WashDC would be nearly empty by the end of the week.
10 posted on
06/01/2022 1:38:50 PM PDT by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: livius
11 posted on
06/01/2022 1:40:09 PM PDT by
john drake
(Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
To: livius
What do people who don’t believe in evil do? They blame inanimate objects. Guns.“
Oh they believe in evil.. they believe with all their blackened wizened shriveled hearts the you and I are evil.
12 posted on
06/01/2022 1:42:25 PM PDT by
TalBlack
(We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
To: livius
Didn’t Adam outlaw rocks after Cain killed his brother?
13 posted on
06/01/2022 1:54:04 PM PDT by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is i)
To: livius
18 posted on
06/01/2022 2:24:43 PM PDT by
SomeCallMeTim
( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
To: livius
The left has effectively been forced by their own ideological positions to disbelieve in moral absolutes (except the supremacy of their own will). They advocate abortion, sexual perversion, theft (by Marxism), the indoctrination and grooming of children, and ultimately totalitarian control by the state.
19 posted on
06/01/2022 2:38:37 PM PDT by
unlearner
(Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
To: livius
So true. Enacting new laws, rules and regulations do not make evil people good. Evil people are still going to do evil things no matter what.
20 posted on
06/01/2022 3:35:57 PM PDT by
LottieDah
(If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.”)
To: livius
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
21 posted on
06/01/2022 3:38:17 PM PDT by
Kartographer
(“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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