By Selwyn Duke
After the horrible mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska, people are asking the usual questions. Many want to know why shooter Robert Hawkins did it. A better question would be: Why not?
No, I haven’t become an anarchist, but I do wonder why a society that has expressed utter contempt for moral standards for decades would expect that other people wouldn’t. We feed children moral relativism in many guises — tolerance, multiculturalism, diversity — and this removes all logical reason to impose moral constraints on oneself. We say that right and wrong are opinion; everyone has his own "truth"; if it feels good, do it; and whatever works for you. And then we’re surprised that what works for some is murder and suicide.
We only have to read the killer’s words to see the ravages of secularism in our society:
"I’ve just snapped. I can’t take this meaningless existence anymore.
I’ve been a constant disappointment and that trend would have only
continued."
A meaningless existence . . . . In reality, if there’s no God and nothing beyond this fold, if it’s just ashes to ashes, dust to dust, what meaning is there? Then it really is "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die."
But as the Bible says, "There is pleasure in sin for a season." What happens when winter comes and neither eating nor drinking will make one merry? Then, sometimes, it’s tomorrow we die.
What particular path is chosen by the meaningless isn’t that meaningful. When a person perceives no Truth, when he is bereft of spiritual substance, he will always fill that God-shaped hole within with a thing of this world. It will always be one lie or another; will it be sex, drugs, power, or something else? It’s naive to think it matters. If we operate by the pleasure principle, it will always be whatever tickles our fancy. And some dark souls will be pleased by death and destruction.
People such as Christopher Hitchens and Michael Newdow ought to think about this — that is, if they’d think at all — when they prance about trying to destroy faith and strip God from the public square. Because maybe if kids heard that judgment wasn’t demonic but divine, they’d make better judgments. Maybe if they understood that they come not from muck but God, they’d be more godly. Maybe if they realized they were also spirit, they’d have more respect for the flesh. Maybe, just perhaps, if kids saw "Thou shalt do no murder" in the classroom, we’d have fewer Robert Hawkinses committing murder in the world.
If they were given a reason to live, they wouldn’t have a reason to die.
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