Looking For Answers in All the Wrong Places
I downloaded the Meet the Press podcast and watched a bit of it last night and was dismayed by the political and social pundits attempts to find out what happened at Virginia Tech.
Can campus security be improved?
Can we give better psychology tests to struggling students to help them?
Should we make background checks for guns more rigorous?
It is dismaying because it is meaningless. The attempt to find understand related to VT can only come through the one answer that no one wants to face: humanity is sinful.
The secular culture clings with all of its might to the faint, humanistic ideals which it has built itself upon. It’s built a castle (or perhaps ivory tower) on the sand and it wonders why it is sinking lower and lower.
I’m deeply pained not only for the suffering of the families and individuals affected by the VT shooting; but also for the spiritual impotency of our culture that emerges when such crises come the the fore. Violent video games are not the problem - the murderous human heart can only be cured by the sprinking of the blood of the Lamb. This is the end of the matter, and all else is truly meaningless.
