"It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense, and can't see things as they are. Anything that anybody talks about, and says there's a good deal in it, extends indefinitely like a vista in a nightmare. And a dog is an omen and a cat is a mystery and a pig is a mascot, and a beetle is a scarab, calling up all the menagerie of polytheism from Egypt and old India; Dog Anubis and the great green-eyed Pasht and all the howling bulls of Bashan; reeling back to the bestial gods of the beginning, escaping into elephants and snakes and crocodiles; and all because you are frightened of four words: 'He was made Man.'" ~ Father Brown
God has never given a temporal commandment.
Of course, being so relentlessly stupid and clueless, we still don't understand what's going on around us. We chalk it all up to a "mental health crisis," as if there's some mysterious mental illness spreading like syphilis throughout the land. Or we conclude that we just haven't settled on the right combination of laws and regulations. We seem to ignore the fact that a great many of these mass killers had been on psychotropic medicines, and they either acquired their weapons illegally or they acquired them because the existing laws weren't properly enforced (as was the case in Texas). We are already the most medicated and regulated civilization in human history, yet these things have only increased in frequency.
Laws won't heal the human spirit. Neither will prescription pills. We can't treat moral corruption like we treat headaches. It's not always a "chemical imbalancement" that propels a guy to murder women and children. Often, that desire is rooted much deeper, all the way down in the depths of his depraved and rotten soul.
There is a very troubling combination coming together. We dehumanize each other while medicalizing and politicizing evil. The result is indifference and detachment all the way around. Exactly the atmosphere where Satan thrives. It is the atmosphere of Hell itself, leaking like noxious fumes into our world. And there is only one antidote that really works. His name is Christ.
If you're wondering where all of these killers are coming from — check Twitter. It's filled with future candidates: People who truly do not recognize the humanity in their fellow man. And they're not just on Twitter. They're out there in the "real world," laughing at a guy while he drowns, or torturing a disabled man for fun, or taking selfies with a woman who's just been beaten unconscious, or back on the internet watching a teenager livestream his own suicide. What really separates these people from Devin Kelley? Whatever it is, the wall between them is very thin. The key thing they share — the key thing that so many of us share — is utter and complete indifference.