When unexplained violence takes center stage, we tend to turn to modern psychology to explain it.But there is an alternative explanation, one that has been played out in film, stage and writings since the beginning of history.
Was Cho Seung-Hui schizophrenic ? psychotic ? manic-depressive? Or were the shooting deaths of 32 people, including Cho himself, at Virginia Tech University part of the ongoing struggle between God and Satan ? good against evil ? lightness and darkness?Could Cho have been possessed by the Devil? Could that explain the massacre at Virginia Tech?Dr. Richard Roberts, president of Oral Roberts University, shouts an unequivocal ?Yes!??Based on what I?ve seen in the news,” Roberts said in an interview, “there?s no doubt that this act was Satanic in origin.”
Gee. I wonder if he’d be saying this if Mr. Cho wasn’t Christian, if he didn’t mention Jesus in his rantings as if he were in some kind of communication (anyone who claims to talk with God is nuts, right?). I wonder if he’d blame Atheism if Cho were an Atheist.I write this because I was ABOUT to write a blog entry urging you not to link Cho’s Christianity with his dimentia. He was very disturbed and we can’t honestly blame Christianity for this.But… we can certainly point the finger at scumbags trying to capitalize on tragedy for their own personal gain. Shermer was quoted in passing in this article, but he wasn’t trying to twist the facts.
So, uhm….. If someone guns down any of the Phelps family, that would mean they weren’t “true Christians”? I mean, “God does not do that to his servants”.
Now, if we could only get a volunteer to test that theory. :p
st. lucifer,
As much as I hate Phelps and his group of hate-mongers, I enjoy having sex without an officer in the room even more. Not to mention peeing without everyone being able to see.
Has there ever been an incident in the US where a private citizen used a concealed weapon to stop a situation like this? I’m guessing not.
I think that if one or two of the students or teachers were armed, the results would likely have been worse, with bullets flying everywhere.
My impression is that most people who have a gun for self defense are more likely to use it as a threat only. For those who actually do figure out how to release the safety before getting shot first, the adrenalin will make them highly erratic and a danger to others.
Without a background of military or police training most people are going to be a liability in a shooting battle. Certainly the odds improve for an experienced hunter or paint ball afficionado, but it is still a kind of a Walter Mitty fantasy for gun lovers that they could be the hero.
Kind of like private pilots’ daydreams of landing a 747 when the pilots are incapacitated.
Of course, what do I know. The only hand gun I’ve ever seen was a pellet gun in a Canadian Tire store.
There really are no easy answers. We can’t lock up everyone who might become disturbed enough to do this. Even in a country where guns are much more restricted like Canada, they can still be obtained and used.
Roberts is a ghoul, ultimately trying to benefit from the pain of the bereaved. Then there’s Rush and the rest. Phelps is about as low as they come.
According to the newsm if the judge in Cho’s earlier hearing for mental fitness had had him commited, he never would have had access to those guns. But since the judge ordered him to attent an outpatient program, he could by a gun perfectly legally.
Here’s what I could find with a hasty search.
http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Save-Lives-Americans-Defending/dp/1559502266
Thank you DD Dropout