In the last few days the media has paraded a chorus of spokespersons, religious leaders, politicians, sports figures, media analysts, the president, psychiatrists, those immediately affected and a nation in fear of being affected by such events. The sympathies expressed are real and the Sandy Hook circumstances have made them all well deserved. Everyone is asking, why? How are we to rationally compartmentalize such a shocking and irrational event? The why is in each of our hearts. Yet, in spite of all the expert comments, all the soul searching, all the good advice, we again remain in a quandary without an answer.
Could the answer be that the children are paying the price for our duplicity, our own lawbreaking? Could it be that we as a society have taken actions that are breaking God’s moral equivalency in regard to the value of life? If we as a society do not value life in our personal, legal and political lives, then there will be hell to pay. Those of us who would like to avoid responsibility are quick to assign blame to God for the horror. It is God’s fault because he devised this morally equivalent world! Stupid is as stupid does.
Such a historically overly utilized human cop out will only lead us to more Sandy Hook tragedies, we must muster the courage to face our demons. The moral equivalency in question is that violence returns to us as violence. It is written into the stars and history has repeatedly confirmed this truth. When our society condones and makes violence in the womb legal, accessible and acceptable, all of our children become vulnerable to the certainty of returned violence that we are owed. This is a morally equivalent world, how long will we faint blindness and deny that fact?
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca
