Some young men who think to solve problems with machine-guns killed some men, of ages unknown to me, who think to advance human enlightenment by sneering at all things of which they don’t approve. They don’t approve of God or those who claim, falsely or truly, to serve God. The intellectual and moral midgets at the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, published cartoons insulting to Muslims, others insulting to Jews, and still others insulting to Christians. Some Muslims killed some of the midgets. Just as would be true with the murders of pimps or drug-dealers or child-abusers, the French police should investigate with energy and others in the judicial system of France should prosecute with proper aggression. To be sure, there were at least two innocent victims that I’m aware of: a security guard and a policeman shot execution style as he lay injured on the sidewalk, perhaps trying to surrender.
On the whole, I consider men who murder bodies to less my enemy, less the enemy of anyone wishing to be a friend of God, than those who murder souls and minds. I think someone in the Bible said something similar. I can’t speak for God but He might be inclined to favor those who have a deformed understanding of the Almighty over those who commit sophomoric blasphemy under the Modernist delusion that it is intelligent commentary. Nowadays, there seem to be a lot of people of no great intelligence or other talents who have been encouraged to believe they are creative or insightful. They think to lead mankind on a better path by application of the principle of the corrupted, secularized, surviving strain of the Enlightenment:
We tolerant intellectuals of the modern West are what human beings should be and we’ll do our darnedest to make every human creature into our images.
Some of those moral and intellectual midgets work by way of nasty and sneering cartoons. Some make blood-filled movies or movies depicting moral commitments as jokes—except those moral commitments which serve the needs of our political and financial elites. Others worm their way into power in the United States government or one of its international agencies and use military and financial weapons to destroy those who seek to defend their own traditions, especially if those traditions are from the earlier, Christian phase of the West.
In any case, here’s a good take from Aaron D Wolf though I perhaps consider it a good take because his thoughts are in line with mine: Reaping the Whirlwind With Charlie Hebdo,
Here is a commentary on the general situation by a war-journalist of deservedly high reputation, Patrick Cockburn: Charlie Hebdo Attack.
And, finally, a commentary about the actual moral norms throughout history written by Razib Khan, himself born into a Muslim family and now an atheist: Taboos Against Blasphemy Are Normal.