Barring any desire or wish of
being dogmatic and judgmental about this still fresh horrific episode, the
following is advanced to offer a possible rationale of what happened in Las
Vegas.
As mentioned the city among
other things, such as being the entertainment and gambling capital of the
world, is also abashedly referred to as Sin City.
We know that among other
things the concept of sin may be defined also as the omission of doing certain moral
acts.
It is an undeniable
indication that the US, especially
because of liberal progressivism and moral relativism of the left, has been
forcefully pushed toward trying to eliminate as much as it could
any signs and semblances of religion in the public square and in public
proceedings. Therefore, actively trying
to remove God from everyday lives. Right
or wrong, we concede that religion informs the learned moral values who hold
dear in life, and also teaches us to earnestly pursue virtue in the living of
our lives.
Thus, it is sad to note that
the Las Vegas killer among other things is said to have no religion. That is what his brother declared. Therefore, he was not religious, showed no
interest in it but was decidedly, a serious and heavy gambler. And probably that is why he had felt at home maintaining
houses in Las Vegas and in Reno, too, another gambler’s paradise in the
northern part of the same state of Nevada.
He and his family had lived in Florida, and Texas before.
It should also be noted that
just before the mass shooting occurred, the harvest festival concert which is
essentially a County Western event, found it appropriate to insert in its loaded
repertoire of songs, the singing of God Bless America that had the huge crowd
of over 22,000 spiritedly chiming in. A
most inspiring and elating exercise of homage and Christian affirmation of the
supremacy of a Creator, which would a little later be terribly punctuated by
such a horrific deed.
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Interpreting part of the “hard
sayings” that Christ bequeathed to us his followers, to try to explain the whys
and wherefores of Paddock and his horrific deed.
When we do not pursue the
path of virtue, we veer to the easy street of vice.
And it is because of vice
that we have a life hereafter. Because
vice brought death of body and soul right here on this earth. A living hell.
When vice reared its ugly
head, the Creator had to provide the escape which is the life hereafter.
Paddock tried to infect the
people with his dead body and soul by bringing physical death to them, except
he did not consider the salvific life hereafter promised all of us.
