Sunday, October 28, 2018
Sunday Reflection: More death
One terrible person made a bunch of bombs. They were duds; no one was hurt. He targeted the rich and famous.
Another terrible person went into a building and shot as many people as he could, killing 11 of them. He targeted those who were worshipping.
Both did it out of hate.
Like a lot of people, I am wondering "What is going on?" How did we get to a place where (on top of school shootings and all the other violence) we now are stacking up in one week multiple acts of lethal hate on the national stage.
Part of the problem is this: There is no moral force in our society to counter hate.
The government has abdicated that role.
Faith leaders have lost their voice and influence, and some exacerbate the problem.
Our teachers have been marginalized and devalued.
Popular culture is not much help; it is often rooted in violence.
In all of the time I have been alive, this is the period I can remember with the largest vacuum in real leadership.
Can we hope that this will change?
Another terrible person went into a building and shot as many people as he could, killing 11 of them. He targeted those who were worshipping.
Both did it out of hate.
Like a lot of people, I am wondering "What is going on?" How did we get to a place where (on top of school shootings and all the other violence) we now are stacking up in one week multiple acts of lethal hate on the national stage.
Part of the problem is this: There is no moral force in our society to counter hate.
The government has abdicated that role.
Faith leaders have lost their voice and influence, and some exacerbate the problem.
Our teachers have been marginalized and devalued.
Popular culture is not much help; it is often rooted in violence.
In all of the time I have been alive, this is the period I can remember with the largest vacuum in real leadership.
Can we hope that this will change?
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I can't help but blame at least in part Ali Ahmad...
But there are many greater offenders. We are living through a great universal crisis of the soul. Everybody says the violence in America is not so unusual historically. But, I think you put your finger on the problem, Mark, we are in the midst of a leadership vacuum. Not unusual for us to be in the valley. But being in the valley lost and alone seems something much more foreboding...
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But there are many greater offenders. We are living through a great universal crisis of the soul. Everybody says the violence in America is not so unusual historically. But, I think you put your finger on the problem, Mark, we are in the midst of a leadership vacuum. Not unusual for us to be in the valley. But being in the valley lost and alone seems something much more foreboding...
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