12/15/12
I cannot understand the horror of what happened yesterday in Newtown,Connecticut. I live in Connecticut, and Newtown is an hour away from where I live. The thought of someone murdering 20 children in a first grade school room is an incomprehensable act of evil that can never be understood. I cried when I heard the news of this tragic act of insanity. Every parent in the United States shed tears for those 20 innocent children. The parents of these children must be asking, if God exists and is all loving, how could he allow such a slaughter of innocent children? God has allowed this before and continues to allow it. Hundreds of thousands of children have been killed in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent months and years by the direct orders of American Presidents or their genocidal allies. Millions of children and their parents have been murdered in African conflicts due to American interventions there. Billions of children are starving around the world due to American wars and sanctions and arm sales to brutal dictators. In the United States 1 in 4 children live in poverty. Unspeakable historical and biblical accounts of slaughters of innocent children have been known for thousands of years. Massacres of unbelievable proportions have been inflicted upon the American Indians, Russians, Jews, Chinese,Japanese, Cambodians, Africans, Irish, Asian Indians and countless indigenous peoples and continues, yet today Americans are concentrating on their most recent loss.
God never explains himself in these atrocities, he merely allows them to happen and continue to happen, yet everyone who escapes the massacres thank God for their safety and the safety of their love ones. Perhaps by allowing these horrors to continue to occur God tests our faith and strength, but today my faith is shaken. Today my strength is weakened. Today the country mourns the death of 20 innocent children, while they ignore the death of millions of children around the world. Newtown,Connecticut is an upscale white community in one of the wealthiest states in the country. What makes this tragedy so shocking to Americans is, that it happened in a White upper middleclass community, not a poor violence ravaged city, or country, where child murders are sponsored by the American government and its genocidal allies. No one in the United States today can ignore their own vulnerablity to an insane act of violence, but they still ignore the horrors their government inflicts on children in other countries. The age of American innocence is gone forever. The dreams of safe havens for American families have been shattered by the Newtown massacre. The joy of Christmas this year for many Americans and especially those of Newtown Connecticut has been turned off by this tragedy. We all stand like Christmas trees without lights or decorations.
There is no possible way to console the parents of those innocent children who needlessly died. Neither is there anyway to console anyone who has lost a child, either through accident, murder or war. The slaughter of innocence is an ancient omen for a great coming change. Herod killed all children in his kingdom under the age of 2 years old to prevent the coming of Christ. Perhaps we can understand the tragedy of this murder of 20 children, and the continued murder and starvation of millions of innocent children as an omen of what is to come. If we do not change our individual and national consciousness to end all war and conflict, these horrors will continue and worsen. In this time of great loss for America, I hope our national conscience will change by the shock of this event, to less selfishness and greater compassion for all who lose loved ones around the world. May the horrible, needless, sacrifice of those 20 Newtown children be a stark reminder to everyone of the preciousness of life.
L.A. Steel
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