Some people will advance that right come hell or high water. And I wonder if that guarantees that both are coming. I know it is easy to voice this concern for guns after such a tragedy as Littleton. But I think it is foolish not to raise the question and even more foolish to dismiss the statistics that tell us something is wrong in the American culture to have so much carnage from guns. When I surf the TV, I never cease to be stunned by the number of shows that thrive on violence.
Movies are probably worse.
And the youth of our country are more influenced by these forms of myth making than ever before in our history. I have been meeting with a small group of pastors from a variety of different church traditions to talk about what it would take for the whole gospel to be expressed by the whole church to the whole city. My third observation is with regard to the place of values in our culture. That is, we have been told by our cultural wizards that all values are equal. That is where conscience begins.