“...When tragedy or atrocity strikes — as it just did with the mosque shootings in New Zealand — thoughts and prayers are not just an expression of compassion.
They are, more importantly and more wisely, an expression of humility and helplessness.
“There is nothing we can do in the face of this wickedness but we stand in solidarity with the victims and ask God to comfort their families in their sorrow.”
Almost every other reaction is absurd.
To suggest you have the solution to the eternal problem of evil in the form of addressing your pet peeve or of blaming and attacking your political opponents is disgraceful.
It is to use the bodies of the slain for a soap box.
It degrades you and insults the victims.
It is likewise absurd to extrapolate from the murderer’s philosophy in order to condemn philosophies that may have something in common with it.
There are psychopaths on the right and left.
...I think the Democratic party has lost its collective mind.
But I am more than willing to stipulate that Ted Cruz and Chuck Schumer, Jim Jordan and Nancy Pelosi can all agree that murdering innocents at their prayers is bad.
This is not where our disagreements lie.
...We do not have to talk about any of these things today.
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously wrote: “Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.”
In the face of evil and unimaginable suffering, there is nothing wrong with having nothing to say.
All we can do is feel for the victims and appeal to that great Heart of Righteousness we trust will triumph at the end of time.
My thoughts and prayers."
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