Our friend David Goldman on the murders in Norway: A Time to Be Silent and Mourn . There is, he writes,
a streak of human depravity that defies any effort to fit it into the pattern of events. It is suicide writ large, a propensity for self-destruction that wants to take with it as much of the world as available technology makes feasible. If divine grace is inexplicable, so is the radical rejection of grace. “Everything that arises is only worth its own destruction,” Mephistopheles told Faust, as he explained his grudge against all that exists.
He goes on to suggest what this reality requires of us.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE
Moral Certitude and the Iran War
The current military engagement with Iran calls renewed attention to just war theory in the Catholic tradition.…
The Slow Death of England: New and Notable Books
The fate of England is much in the news as popular resistance to mass immigration grows, limits…
Ethics of Rhetoric in Times of War
What we say matters. And the way we say it matters. This is especially true in times…
