These people either do not believe in any god at all, or believe that God's primary concern is their convenience.
Then you have the judges. They have been fully infected with the disease of liberalism, which at its heart says, "We know what's best for you." That turns justice on its head and each case is no longer decided on law and facts, but by the need of each individual judge to feel powerful and important and to impress his peers.
Novelty becomes the rule, but not novelty among the pack. The novelty is from the past, an overturning of mellenia of established human wisdom and a headlong flight into the folly of man's ego.
Rather than limiting the evil of man, they seek to license it. Rather than reforming the heart of man, they seek to "reform" good itself, to redefine good to be whatever is found in the heart of man.
And so the desire to be rid of inconvenient others, a most despicable desire, is empowered. Rather than serving our fellow man, we become his emperor and executioner. Anytime he is unable to speak his own wishes, we become false witnesses putting him to death.
These people were not shocked by the horrific crimes of Andrea Yates, they identified with her and her desire to rid herself of inconvenient others. That suggests they are not satisfied with their accomplishments so far in dealing out death.
At first glance, it would seem odd that their thirst for blood only extends to the innocent: They will move heaven and earth to spare the guilty. But really, that fits withing their perverted reality perfectly. In all their evil, they imagine themselves not just to be good, but to be paragons of virtue. They spare the guilty the rest of society has demanded a blood accounting from in order to demonstrate their greater mercy and magnanimity.
Remember that no matter what, they must differentiate themselves from society to maintain their delusion that they are better, wiser, nobler than the rest of mankind.
One of the many remarkable aspects of the Schiavo case was the attorney Felos calling a starving woman "beautiful and peaceful" and praising "the dying process." The rest of us found those remarks nonsensical, but Felos and his fellow death cultists actually believe this stuff. It is how they feed their megalomania.
> Then you have the judges. They have been fully infected with the disease of liberalism, which at its heart says, "We know what's best for you." That turns justice on its head and each case is no longer decided on law and facts, but by the need of each individual judge to feel powerful and important and to impress his peers.
Pretty well described -- and simply a recognition that we're no longer governed by consistent rules of law, but capricious and biased decisions from black-robed men.