Ravi Zacharias on Virginia Tech
Apologist Ravi Zacharias has written an essay reflecting on last month’s tragedy at Virginia Tech, and on the way we as a society have responded to it. Events like this raise countless questions about God and evil, he notes–but are we serious about finding the answers? He has some sobering thoughts about the spiritual health of an American society that has yet to come to grips with the existence of moral evil. From his essay:
The greater tragedy may well be ours. How we as a society, claiming to be well, put question marks on whether there is such a thing as evil or not, whether individuals bear any instigating responsibility or not, and whether life is just a temporal thing or not. Putting question marks to which God has already given names and categories is precisely the reason we mourn and weep with no answers because we wish to re-name and redefine God’s order. That is the tragedy that leads to atrocities. Jesus said to the self-righteous that the man with physical blindness had an advantage. He knew he could not see. The one with spiritual blindness that doesn’t know he is blind is truly the one bereft of insight, truth, and reality. That may be our biggest danger at this hour.
Read the full piece for the rest of his thoughts.
