All too Common At Morning Mass

It seems to be becoming all to common for the first words out of the priest's mouth at morning Mass to be..."We pray for the victims of yesterday's horrific act..." And this latest case was an attack on worshipers in a baptist church in Texas. I will not echo the previous president that God give us wisdom to rid ourselves of the weaponry so present in our country (Mr. Obama didn't seem so concerned to beseech God about the other innocents that get terminated in clinics which I don't imagine God was quite comfortable with) So I must take the previous president to task over his citing weaponry? Really. After all wasn't it weaponry that kept the carnage from being even greater? (Wasn't he perpetrator kept from killing (I prefer this word to "shooting" as hunters shoot, kids shoot marbles)) more by a good man with a weapon?) Do we still think these killings are the result of weaponry? or might it be that there is now an atmosphere of hate created by those who label the religious, those who seek to love God and dare to have opinions about morality, as haters? Isn't it they who have become free game for all the slander and insults and yes, hatred from the Tolerant? I can even imagine in the head of the killer (not shooter---does anyone imagine he would've found another "weapon" of choice had he not had a gun? Maybe a rental truck?) that he would've thought that because of the atmosphere of hatred against the religious, against republicans, against the conservative, against those who represent traditional morality and virtues, that he might have felt he would be regarding as a hero in culling the world of yet more of these superstitious Jesus-freaks. After all aren't we better relieving the world of religion and making morality completely new? I'm afraid we are finding out now what this new morality means.

Yes, the world is changing when hearing the priest at morning Mass give a prelude about the most recent carnage becomes almost expected. Of course few see this trend has anything to do with the anti-theistic atmosphere that has been in progress over the past generations (especially the past 8 years). May we wake to the fact that as Dostoevsky said, "Without God all things are permissible." I'm afraid we are finding out the hard way what these words really mean. The Good News is there is a Solvent out there to sponge out the writing on the wall. And it can be found in the Church's chalice.