Inexplicable Evil

By Brody Levesque | SANDY HOOK, CT -- Unspeakable tragedy, horrific crime, inexplicable  all words that inadequately describe the evil that was visited on a small New England town and its most vulnerable citizens Friday, its children.

As a reporter I am nearly numb from the volume of senseless violence that has seemingly escalated since that terrible day in Littleton, Colorado at Columbine High School. This never ending parade of shooting sprees that no-one seems able to stop, prevent, or even explain seems to have become a sick fixture in American culture.

What is so disturbing about this episode in particular is that these were babies, wee ones, who had not even had a chance to begin their lives. While members of my profession continue to air, print, and broadcast this parade of horror from Newtown over the next few days, I hope that parents around the nation will take a moment to reach out, take a breather from the coverage, and hug their kids. My heart breaks for those families, who at what now should be a season of joy for them, have been forever marred by the violence visited upon them today.

This nation needs a real debate about guns, it is now unavoidable.

But, what also needs to be debated is just how much certain elements of what ostentatiously should be a force for good, has turned itself into a force driven only by a lust for money and power. Exemplified best by Bryan Fischer of the self labeled 'Christian Family Values' group, the American Family Association immediately after the shooting.

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The mere fact that Fischer can shamelessly promote that nonsense instead of expressing hope and condolences for the affected families is sickening.

BN&S columnist Des Rutherford noted: 

It's not merely sickening, it flies in the face of every rational belief in a god that holymen and women have sought to explain our self-awareness as human beings. His words and condemnations deny that god and good are words derived from each other in the hope of enlightening us to life's joys whilst comforting us during those moments of tragedy which befall us. 

Fischer's faith is rooted in the hell of his own indoctrinated beliefs and he seeks to implant them in the mind of anyone who is unlucky enough to hear them. He fails to understand that freewill is not being free to believe as he does, but that each of us is free to believe as we will. 

Fischer is convinced of his devils, by his devils, and for his devil's sake, and woe to those who do not submit to them. He lacks the cognitive ability to understand the devils are but figment of his imagination. They are thoughts misconstrued as words of a god that cannot be found by obedience to them for they are at best myths written by men for consolation of ignorance. At worst they are the products of a mind that has abandoned reality for the tortures of insanity. 

Like many religious priests of tribes now dead, he rips the heart out of human experience and replaces it with the threat of death as a meaningless reward for denying the freedom to live one's own life. Truly has he wasted his life; don't let this man and his cohorts convince you to waste yours.