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Consider the Lilies
The great majority of school shootings are de facto suicides. I can understand suicide. I can understand murder. I can’t understand murdering arbitrarily. I can’t understand murdering children. I can’t understand murdering children as your last wish on earth.
It has been pointed out that the majority of school shooters were on SSRIs, mentally sad. Now they seem to be transsexuals or whatever word is closest to non-binary two-spirit non-conforming sexuality. But isn’t all transsexuality a rejection of the self? And a rejection of the body? A rejection of the mind and one’s true personhood? And doesn’t it ultimately involve removal of fundamental body parts? Fundamental as in a social identity so prevalent and powerful and obvious that all societies acknowledge it as the first ordered description on one’s being? Is it a girl? It’s a boy!
Male and female He made them.
Now we draw and quarter children in the womb. We use drugs to stop sexual growth in children and to stop their natural sexual function. We cut off the body parts of young men and women. And we call this normal. And we celebrate this. We call normal sexuality cis– and patriarchal, and toxic. And the only non-toxic man is a self-made man, that is a woman who has had herself cut up into pieces to be discarded.
And along the way a few of these young people go so far as to arbitrarily murder children. They murder the other youngsters because they are defenseless and normal, and innocent.
Are we so dissatisfied with ourselves that we tattoo every limb and pierce every appendage? Seeking to be different or unique or to make a bold statement about who we say we are. To join a club of unique individuals in which every member can be immediately identified as being one with the group and as unique in the same way as the one standing next to him.
We paint our hair to stand out in a crowd and to be unique. And we argue loudly so as not to be overlooked.
And for some few of us in America that is not enough. We want death. We want suicide. And murder. And death all around us. And cutting, and mutilation and killing others is not enough. We choose to cut and kill, but not just the bourgeois neighbors, those who see us but refuse to understand. We enter the congregation of the innocent, and mutilate and kill. And in the process we kill ourselves.
Such is the Culture of Death.
Some object to the concept that we are created in the image of God. They say we created God in our own image. Is that true? Where has this god of our own understanding gotten us?
Some deny and object to the existence of satan. Some say that God is an ignorant crutch, a utilitarian matter of evolutionary psychology. Some say angels and demons are fantasy, allegory. I disagree. God is Life, and when you divorce yourself from all that is godly the only thing left is death. How can we tell people to follow the Way, the Truth, and the Life when we remove it from their earliest teaching and acculturation? When we remove the purpose of living from their consciousness and consideration?
There is utility in contemplation of our place in the world, but it is more than that, it is mandatory. And to know our place under God is more than a matter of life and death, it redefines life itself.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
The woman who shot up the school was not a child. She was 28. That is an adult. That is older than the 25 years of age said to be the point when the brain matures. That is as old as my youngest nephew, who is married and has a child on the way.
When I was 28 I was working at Mission Control navigating Space Shuttles during missions. I had been married nearly 7 years and had a child. At 28 you have officers commanding ships, leading infantry companies (and sometimes battalions and regiments during WWII). Beethoven wrote his first symphony at 29.
Once you are past 20 you are an adult.
I know this is what the seniors among us have been taught but the maturing scheme has shifted some in recent generations especially with these devices attached to them. Could there be some serious effects from empty brains that get filled with something strange?
For you and me, yes. I wonder about the present generation.
She wasn’t a child, but I referred to her along with the other transsexual child shooters as a young person. I think that’s accurate. I think under 30 is young.
You didn’t when you were 25.
No. If this is due to anything it is due to failures of parenting. And by a society that excuses adults behaving as children.
This seems to be the root of the problem right? It’s so much easier to demand the ban of a certain weapon than a hard look at why people (many of them young) get to the place where murdering others is an outcome they would even contemplate. Despair, hopelessness, self mutilation, the devaluation of life……all play a part yet are in some ways propped up in modern culture.
Because I thought as a child. Plus I really do think things are different nowadays. It really seems like a lot of people never grow up. 25 and still on your parents’ medical insurance? Weird. Immature.
I have three sons and five nieces and nephews. All of them are functioning adults. This generation is not special (despite what they might think) and they are really not different than past generations – except for the fact that a lot of parents are excusing their behavior.
Nope. Because you thought as an adult. You are making excuses for young adults. People live up to the expectations held for them. Have low expectations get low behavior. Have high expectations get high behavior.
I was totally on my own when I was 18 subject to the draft but I could not vote or drink until I was 21. Look what we do today, I heard recently that over 30% of single men lived with parents, Think it said men and they can stay on parents’ health insurance plans until they are 26.
Some of us think of anyone under 80 as young.
And this may still allow enclaves of exceptions like you describe. As a matter of fact, that may still be the majority but we have lost the ability to exercise control within our political system.
The strange part I think might be what has happen to the differentiation within society of masculine and feminine. It seems to be changing the interaction between the two sexes to a point now where we have a bunch of people who think they don’t belong to either of those two, but it is not real.
I have owned six different firearms. None of those firearms have ever taken my car keys in the middle of the night and drove to the nearest Shop & Rob to commit an armed robbery.
Yes, if they are not taught to respect life, but to devalue it, and when your life is all about you and your self-esteem (call it narcissism), everything is fodder for your next shout for attention. Smashing windows, Molotov cocktails, looting, beating people unconscious. And yet nothing satisfies.
I think excusing their behavior is a very large part of it.
I share this view. I have 3 children, 7 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, and 4 sons-in-law. None of these have gone astray into criminality, drug or other addictions, failure to work for a living, on taken to living in the streets. We are all close and constantly in touch and helping each other when needed.
But I do see some subtle changes in some of the younger ones but not all. and nothing that has taken anyone off the rails yet.
I don’t think I’m making excuses. Just the opposite. They are deficient, and empty, and narcissistic. And vandalistic, and angry, and deadly, with no worthwhile principles to live by. Certainly not all young people, but what seems to be a growing proportion.
I moved out at of 19. Late bloomer, I guess.
Teaching young people that abortion is perfectly all right probably gives them an early start on a culture of death. And there’s a lot of that in the music, is it not?
Also they are constantly told how terrible everything is…..the country is systemically racist, covid is going to kill everyone, climate change only gives us 12 years or so anyway. Its crazy
I consider all that promotion of fear as taking advantage of the feminization that is more in control now than when us seniors were young. Install fear in those who are controlling.
I’m not saying it’s all the fault of the young and confused. They’re confused and empty because of various aspects of the former culture that is now being denied them. A knowledge of Christ and a broad acceptance of Christian world view and morality being chief among them.
And yes, inculcating a climate of fear is among them.
Obama Care made it 26.
I believe it’s up until age 26, so really 25.
I think you’re right about the nihilism and narcissism — the purposelessness and lack of meaning to life and suffering (the two go together). But, what we haven’t discussed so far is the emphasis on victimhood rather than virtue. Grievance over gratitude.
It’s quite a toxic brew young people are being raised up in and it’s the devil’s work to excuse all manner of bad behavior — up to and including murder — because you’ve been slighted for your race or sexual preference or sexual identity. PBS among others have already started the excuse-making — the “tragedy” of this killer’s pathetic put-upon life.
We’re living in a very sick society. It’s not that there are no good people. But, we have a lot of sickos out there and I don’t see it getting better anytime soon.
Sorry, but I must…
This is a beautiful post, deserving the praise it’s getting.
Several points in the post align with my suspicion that the core element of leftism is ingratitude. Neither the narcissists nor the nihilists on the left feel any call to thank anybody for anything because everything is garbage. Poor us.
These trannies and other destroyers of the self are the union of narcissism and nihilism, and their ingratitude knows no limits.
This is a lost generation without the excuse of a world war.
They have the excuse of terrible teaching, and terrible examples, set by the older generations. It’s not an excuse that will get them off the hook with God. It should prevent us from blaming the young, exclusively, for accepting the lies that they have been taught by their elders.
It is complicated, of course. Even good parents can be undermined by a variety of other influences, and by the thoughts and choices of their own children. Overall, though, I think that we reap what we sow, as a society.