Idea Title:  Massacre of Students in US

There are many philosophies expressed in IDEASFREE. We are all the end products of 2,000 years of Judeo-Christianity. So most of the philosophies exoressed here are variations of Judeo-Christianity, mostly without any allegiance to or identification with Judeo-Christianity. We may express Christian and Jewish values and think they are our own original thoughts. But mostly what we are preaching is Christianity without Christ.

What set me off on this train of thought was the recent massacre of students on a US campus.

The victims are soon forgotten but what fascinates the media, the newspapers and the TV is the perpetrator.  Why did he do it? I believe he did it because he lacks moral values, he lacks a sense of right and wrong, He lacks a conscience, a sense of guilt and remorse.  And he enjoys the power of life and death over his fellow human beings.  It is as close as he can get to being God.

We remember the famous observation of Nietzsche:  “God is dead.” And it was Dostoevski who added:  “If there is no God, then everything is permissible.” If there is no God, then man is god.  And that young man on the campus, killing 33 students, wanted to be God for a few brief hours.

What happened on that campus happens every day in Baghdad, although usually more than 33 people die per day.  If God is dead, then everything is permissible.  What we are doing in Baghdad we are doing in the name of democracy and freedom.  But by whatever name we call it, it is an expression of the denial of God and an expression of the divinity of man.  For history is the story of man in search of his own diety, his own divinity.  The meaning of history is the attempt of man to see himself as God.