WHO TO BLAME: ANOTHER HEINOUS CRIME

The first thing we all heard after the horrible crime at that synagogue in Pittsburgh was that we have to get rid of antisemitism in the country.  While I don't disagree with that sentiment, it totally misses the mark.  

Just two days before Robert Bowers went on his shooting spree, police arrested Cesar Sayoc Jr. in Florida for sending letter bombs to various Democrat figures around the nation.  Before that, there were Muslim shootings, school shootings, school stabbings, Kate Steinle and Mollie Tibbets, Seattle riots... you and I both know I could go on listing such things for hours.  The point is: we don't have a gun problem, a school problem, a church problem, an illegal problem, a theater problem... yes, there are antisimetics in the country, but our real problem is our society is infested with a very bad disease.  

It's called atheism.  

According to Wikipedia, Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is the rejection of belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.

The absence of a deity suggests that there is no higher power to which we humans must report.  It implies that we can do as we please without compunction.  There is no moral authority.  

The religions of America, and perhaps of the world, are failing us.  A prime example is the Catholic religion which lays down strict rules about the conduct of one's life; over time, those beliefs have been allowed to disintegrate in response to social pressures.  In fact, it seems to be okay these days for priests to sodomize young boys.  I'm not picking on just the Catholics; every organized religion has allowed its teachings to become corrupted.  Hence, they have morphed into being simply a building down the street where people go to pray to no one and donate money to nothing in particular.


We as parents have participated in this failure by losing our own faiths and by not demanding that our spiritual leaders uphold their fundamentally moral teachings and beliefs.   When you lose the fear of a deity, when you lose moral authority... you inevitably descend into chaos and crime... exactly where we are today.