Dear Custos,

I understand your loathing of the man who did this but please remember that he is still a child of God's. And I suspect that He is just as sorry for the gunman who got so lost in sin, as those who He welcomed home. I am sure you are right that he is lost to the fires of Hell but it may help our souls to pray for him anyway and any others who may be following in his footsteps that they may be led from the darkness of their lives. I am angry at the gunman - there were people who tried to save him as I understand, but I also pity him, that he allowed himself to be tricked by Satan. I hope I am not too harsh in admonishing you, I just become concerned when people talk about how angry they are at people who do these terrible things. I agree anger is necessary, but also let us be mericful and pray for their souls too, they obviously have been damaged severely.

Karie, no worries, you raise good points in a charitable fashion, the gist of what I am saying here is that a secular society like ours can't call a spade a spade and it bothers me. I think it was Dr. Phil who said that this guy was a "psychopath" and "that is the closest word psycholligsts have for the concept of 'evil.'" I think we see so much of this "evil" because key people in our society don't like it. Listen to secularists bemoan the way Regan called the USSR the "evil empire," or the way Bush calls terrorists "evil do-ers."

From a theological perspective you are right, but I mean as a society, we can't be afraid to point out evil, we can't worry about stepping on secular toes.