Nidal Hasan

By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Nidal Malik Hasan is charged with shooting and killing 13 people and wounding 29 more on U.S. Army base Ft. Hood in Texas this week. Everyone is scrambling for answers, and the first experts consulted have been psychiatrists.

It might seem a bit like asking a fox why another fox attacked the hen house and to others the question of why the physician could not heal himself is not likely to be answered by his equally bewildered colleagues.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Is leftism rising to the defense of evil even as it sinks to the depths of hell? Perhaps this question would have made a better title for this article, but why scare readers away with what may only be construed as a preacher’s pious platitudes?

America is busy with economic problems, the war in Afghanistan and healthcare issues; who’s got time for questions of morality or theological issues? Apparently no one! While all the current issues are worthy of our attention, isn’t it odd that we tend to dismiss the very issue that we ultimately ignore at the price of our own peril?

The CBS News Crimesider reported on October 5, 2009 that Roman Polanski, the accused child rapist, agreed to pay to make it go away. “15 years after he fled the United States, film director — and child rapist — Roman Polanski agreed to pay his sexual assault victim $500,000 to settle a lawsuit, according to court documents.”