tmatt says over at GetReligion that we’re all Waiting for the ‘why” shoe to drop.
I think the obsession with the story shows the one true a media bias (of leftists or rightists or even centrists) - whipping us up into a frenzy of useless emotion. CS Lewis said something about the distraction of reading the news from the real, local events in one’s life and world. Of course the same could be said of blogging :-)
But seriously, I don’t need to ask questions like “what part of Asia”. I don’t need to ask even “what race was he” or, as a liberal (like me) might read into the text of a conservative writer (like tmatt), “What part of Asia = What religion was he?”
From a religious point of view doesn’t all of this coverage just invite us to judge the killer, judge the victims and judge the survivors? I think so. Not a very healthy pastime.
Pray for the dead - may they Rest in Peace! - and for the living: pray that they will heal and forgive. Move on.
It’s on every news station right now - this is not bigger than Iraq or Iran or Dafur. We’re wallowing in a national kind of exculpatory self-pity by proxy. Sorry: we’re all still guilty of our regular sins.
