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Liberals love to find conservative connections to despicable acts of
violence. The Aurora, Colorado, shooting is no exception. But going back
through the background of mass murderers, I’ve come up with a common
denominator – they were all government educated.
The 1999 Columbine shooters
were products of the Colorado Public (government) schools system. The pair
killed 13 people and injured 24 others. Their worldview was fundamentally
Darwinian. “In his journal, [Eric] Harris mentioned his admiration of what
he imagined to be natural selection, and wrote that he would like to put
everyone in a super Doom game and see to it that the weak die and the strong
live.”
The Rocky
Mountain News reported Harris and
Dylan justified their actions based on Darwinian Natural Selection. Harris was
wearing “a white T-shirt with the inscription ‘Natural Selection’ on its front.”
It was based on a video game of the same name. “The game’s World Wide Web site
says it encompasses a ‘realm where anything can happen,’ a place for the
‘bravest of the brave and the fiercest of the fierce. . . . It’s a place where
survival of the fittest takes a very literal meaning. . . . It’s the natural
way, it’s Natural Selection.”
Where did they learn about Natural Selection? In government schools. It’s not
just in the United States. Finland had its own mini-Columbine when
“at least seven people were killed when a teenaged gunman opened fire at a
school in southern Finland on November 7, 2007 hours after a video was posted on
YouTube predicting a massacre there. . . . The YouTube video, entitled ‘Jokela
High School Massacre — 11/7/2007,’ was posted by a user called ‘Sturmgeist89.’
‘I am prepared to fight and die for my cause,’ read a posting by a user of the
same name. ‘I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit,
disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection.’” The shooter
described himself as “a social Darwinist.”[]
The Virginia Tech massacre was a
school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, a governmetn
school steeped in Darwinian science. Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people and
wounded 17 others. Cho“railed
against his parents’ strong Christian faith.”[]
James Holmes is the product of government education. He had a federal grant to
study neuroscience at the University of Colorado. Neuroscience is steeped in
evolutionary biology and is by definition wholly materialistic:
When materialist causes become both necessary and sufficient to explain all of
human thought then parsimony dictates that references to a soul or other
supernatural entities can be tossed out.
Given the foundational premise of neuroscience, Holmes did nothing more than
kill evolved soulless biological units – bags of meat and bones with electricity
coursing through them.
A September 13, 2008 Newsweek article
shows that the science of neuroscience is that our actions are the result of “an
array of mindlessness,” the reaction of “mechanical or chemical bits.”
“Today neuroscientists are finding abundant evidence of an idea that even Freud
played with more than 100 years ago, that separating mind from brain makes no
sense. Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist-neuroscientist Eric Kandel stated it
directly in a watershed paper published in 1998: ‘All mental processes, even the
most complex psychological processes, derive from operations of the brain.’
“Neuroscientists consider it settled that the mind arises from the cooperation
of billions of interconnected cells that, individually, are no smarter than
amoebae. But it’s a shocking idea to some that the human mind could arise out of
such an array of mindlessness. Many express amazement that emotions, pain,
sexual feelings or religious belief could be a product of brain function. They
are put off by the notion that such rich experiences could be reduced to
mechanical or chemical bits. Or they worry that scientific explanations may
seduce people into a kind of moral laziness that provides a ready excuse for any
human failing: ‘My brain made me do it.’”
If I were James Holmes, I would find myself a good lawyer and the best
neuroscientist that money could buy and argue that I was taught in government
schools that “My evolved brain made me do it.”
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