June 29, 2024

The logic of the gun is baffling, staggering, dangerous, and fatal.  To be “armed” yet not reach out in service nor extend a hand in peace, but instead to push away, to threaten, to wall off, to isolate, to suffocate, to drown in the toxic pool of one’s own power.  This is the psychodrama of our time.  The alpha male, caressing his weapon in tragic confusion, quivering on the inside, desperate, neurotic, afraid, does not feel loved, does not know how to love, acts the part.  The manly man who cannot separate himself out from his loathing and fear of another person.  This codependence of hyper masculinity is an ironic and sad commentary on our culture.  Who cares that Jesus explicitly rejected the logic of the gun (Mt 26:52)?  Who cares that Jesus exposed the insanity of violence with the truth (Jn 19:10-11)?  Who cares that Jesus’ resurrection has the final word (Jn 20:17)?  Ecce homo (Jn 19:5), behold the bravest man who ever lived, whose power was made perfect in weakness (2 Cor 12:9).  Ave Crux, Spes Unica.