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Accountability: The Missing Element In The Obama Presidency
Rev. Michael Bresciani Saturday, August 4, 2012
Liberal Logic 101: 12 people were shot and killed by James Holmes a "tragedy"; abortion clinic somewhere in the US says “thousands slaughtered…”a choice”
A plethora of incredibly hard to believe events takes place in America almost every day. Some are unexpected, but many are quite persistent like the nearly 1200 murders a year in Chicago. Others are horrendous events like the recent shooting in Aurora where over a dozen people were killed and several dozen wounded.
Following these events the media is buzzing with coverage and commentary from all the experts, but the question most often asked is – why.
Psychology gives its standard answers which usually have to do with childhood upbringing, abusive parents or childhood traumas. Finally there are chemical imbalances, pathological problems of every sort and description, including severe psychotic problems.
As the dust settles and the media intensity subsides, we are often left with a larger void than when we first heard of the latest tragedy. The very word ‘tragedy’ has become the catchphrase of the decade. This is exactly why it begs to be scrutinized more carefully and perhaps re-defined.
When moral decline, callousness, indifference and distractions are the cause of tragedy it is like a sudden call to attention, a firecracker in a crowd or a bump in the road that turns heads, but only for a while. A tragedy becomes just something momentarily out of the normal flux of the day. It becomes little more than a distraction, except for those directly victimized.
The word is now lighter than air and the questions and answers of why a tragedy occurs has become standard hype. An example of this is perfectly illustrated in a relatively new website called Liberal Logic 101. One of their many graphic illustrations is two pictures joined together for comparison.
The first is the Century 16 Theatre in Aurora Colorado where 12 people were shot and killed by James Holmes. The caption attached to the picture says “…national tragedy.”
The second picture is of an un-named abortion clinic somewhere in the US that says “thousands slaughtered…”a choice”
It took me a mere 99 words to explain what is in these pictures, but the reality is that one look at this picture would be worth far more than a thousand words to the heart that is open and not distracted.
Could it be that we are running headlong into all new more drastic tragedies by the day because we have failed to recognize the senseless slaughter of our own offspring? When will we allow 154,000,000 million abortions to be called…a tragedy?
It is easy to point out that we live in a nation where everyone has rights; the right to marry same sex partners, and to change their sex are but a few. When did the idea of having rights become the proof that nothing could be labeled as wrong?
