Never Again?

I have heard it a number of times from various voices since the recent shooting at Assumption Catholic Church in Minneapolis: "we have to make sure this never happens again". I agree; completely. Yet, how do we do that? I do not believe most people in America will be willing to accept what it will actually take. It will not be accomplished by stricter laws on guns. More security at the Churches will not stop it either (though it can surely prevent people from trying). We can only make sure this never happens again by eliminating nihilism from our society (nihilism is the belief that there are no absolute rules about anything). I did not say it will be easy, just that it will work.

Although there is a lot of information out there about the man who did this heinous act, it is hard to know what he really was influenced by in his life. I certainly do not know what the shooter's parents taught him, so this is not an accusation against them. What we do know is that the mother apparently signed a document approving her son's transgender delusion so that he could change his name. That speaks volumes; especially when we know that she once worked at the Catholic school that he attacked!

Parents, especially Catholics, need to stop teaching their children moral relativism. If you teach your children that rules do not matter (as in approving their hallucinations about gender identity), then you are teaching them that the ten commandments do not matter and you should expect them to break them (even the big ones). If you do not correct your children in their sins (something the Church used to call "permissiveness" and clearly has always condemned as equivalent to moral relativism), then you are telling them sin is OK and pointing them to the pathway away from God.

If this moral relativism were actually to stop in America, then the next generation would no longer think that killing people they do not like is acceptable. They would stop using any weapons to satisfy their hatred (if we take away the guns, they will just find something else to kill people with because it is the heart that needs to change). They would begin to care about life. They would perceive that actions have consequences, and they would be concerned to treat their neighbor as a human being (regardless of how much they disagree with him). The world might actually be a better place to live in. Wow!