Morning Briefing: Evil, Crazy, and Not Talking

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The Conversation We Won't Have Yet again we have a twenty-something white male loner or semi-loner who got a gun and decided to kill people. In most cases we have found that the mass shooter was mentally disturbed. In this case, it looks more and more than Dylann Roof was just a servant of an evil that says some of those created in the image of God are better than others or that some people are not created in the image of God at all. As a nation, when these things happen, we never have the conversation about real evil. We also never have the conversation about mental health. For that matter, we don't have honest conversations about why some kid in Minnesota or Alabama would want to go join ISIS and kill their fellow citizens or why some kid would want to join neo-nazis or a gang. Instead, we descend into partisan conversations where everything is political and neither side can concede or acknowledge the other's points. Everyone and everything gets blamed while ignoring the actual person who killed. I realize now why that is. I realize why we will never have the conversation we should have. Read More

The Environmental Encyclical and the assault on Faith and Reason In 1663, Pope Urban VIII sided with the "scientific consensus" and had the heliocentric observations of Galileo anathemized. That marks, as far as I can tell, the last intervention of the Catholic Church in science. Indeed, Catholic scientists such as Louis Pasteur, the Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel, the Catholic priest Georges Lemaître were on the cutting edge of science. That is, until today. Yesterday the Vatican released the long awaited papal encyclical, "Laudato Si'," or "Praise Be to You" and while not as bad as expected, it was pretty bad. Read More Sponsored Gov't Seizes Control of All Your Financial Accounts Worldwide FREE BOOK: Defend Your Money against Gov't Confiscation Banks Abolishing Your Ability to Use & Store Cash

Ecology Theology I am not Catholic and I am not overly concerned about Pope Francis's encyclical. But even us Protestants should remember that the Bible does have an ecology theology in it. Read More

Good for the Southern Baptist Convention It is refreshing to see virtually all the past still-living leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention join their current leader in taking a principled stand against gay marriage. Regardless of what the Supreme Court decides, churches need to speak forcefully on Biblical teachings and this is one. I hope preachers who have been wavering and refusing to speak up might now be emboldened by the largest Protestant denomination in America speaking with moral clarity. More of this please. Read More

Sponsored Gov't Seizes Control of All Your Financial Accounts Worldwide FREE BOOK: Defend Your Money against Gov't Confiscation Banks Abolishing Your Ability to Use & Store Cash …. but NSA gathering public information was the REAL threat On a multi-user computer system, different user accounts have different permissions. In most Unix-based systems, there is a special account besides. Account zero, the 'root' user, bypasses all permissions checks. The Chinese attackers had root access to Office of Personnel Management servers. Read More

Sincerely yours, Erick Erickson Editor-in-Chief, RedState