Posted on 04/04/2005 1:01:20 PM PDT by quidnunc
The commentary on the recent murder of 9 people by a teen-aged gunman at a Minnesota Indian reservation school tells us as much about our cultural dysfunctions as do the killings themselves. As the pundits pore over the killer's life, every possible cause is analyzed except the one that really counts-the spiritual problem of human evil.
Instead, all the usual determinist suspects are rounded up by our secular culture, the usual symptoms confused with causes. Violence in the media and video games, internet hate groups, divorce, social isolation, "Goth" fashion, flabby gun control, inadequate self-esteem-boosting curricula and counseling services in the schools—all are fingered as culprits, even though millions of kids who watch violent television, surf disreputable chat rooms, live in divorced homes, and have easy access to guns don't kill their classmates.
No one seems to think that perhaps the problem is not one the practitioners of the so-called "human sciences"—psychologists and sociologists—can adequately make sense of, let alone solve. That is why the theologians, philosophers, novelists, and poets, who for twenty-five centuries in the West have meditated on the stubborn mystery of human good and evil, are conspicuous by their absence from the op-ed-page and TV-talking-head oracles.
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(Excerpt) Read more at victorhanson.com ...
Every time the news media makes a big deal out of a mass shooting, we soon have more mass shootings.
I admit I am a trial watcher and a crime buff..I have studied many a crime for the "why", the psychological reason, the character disorders of a perp and many times I settle on the one "evil"..Sometimes greed can be perceived, preserving an image rather than divorce, sociopathy, narcissism...whatever... but it all comes down to evil. They choose evil.
Evil in man is explained by the fact of humanity being fallen into depravity and slavery to sin.
2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
And those who don't leave themselves exposed to Satan.
bttt
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