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grease_1978

Shootings

Dec 14, 2012 13:13

When these things happen I try to imagine how it gets to that point for someone - that they are so disillusioned or filled with hate that they can actually walk into a school and start shooting children. When I heard the news of the Connecticut shooting a half-hour ago I immediately began to cry and just began crying out to God the normal " ( Read more... )

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grease_1978 December 14 2012, 22:10:40 UTC

Just saw this link, thought it was good: http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/12/14/ivan-karamazov-and-the-suffering-of-innocents/

oythegreat December 17 2012, 19:56:56 UTC

I think you can read that blog post about the woman and her child and STILL be right. Christians, who can't bear to deal with bad and unhappy things, have romanticized death. I DO think it contributes to a cavalier attitude about murder. Take a disturbed child and surround him with the idea that the right words or the right poem or the right Bible verse can erase grief, and what happens to his view of life? Death becomes light and manageable, instead of the destructive, terrible force that is actually is.

There are so many tiers to this problem. It sounds as if Adam Lanza was unable to feel anything, no physical pain, no emotional pain, nothing. Apparently the stimuli he needed was 20 dead children. Maybe he felt something then? People call that mental illness. In the old days, they called it demon possession, and I'm starting to think all those barbarians from 2000 years ago may have been closer to the mark.

grease_1978 December 17 2012, 20:16:29 UTC

I agree, Oy. I have definitely been throwing around the phrase more in the last week. Even Marlucio was surprised at me using the phrase "demon possession" haha. But it's true. To me, it either has to be demon possession or the results of OUR OWN doing. .....and by that I mean that we as parents will have to take responsibility for a certain amount of what our children become. yes, their choices are their choices, BUT if we don't get them to adulthood with at least a base amount of virtue then I'm not entirely sure that what they do will solely rest upon them at the judgment.