June 12, 2001: It won’t stop at Timothy McVie

Religion and spirituality are mind-forming games that allow you to believe in something other than self. If you let yourself down, it’s very natural to look up and place blame. The death penalty isn’t a way of sentencing—it satisfies a society who feels an eye should be traded for an eye. Those who make the choice to commit the crime don’t hear it. People rob banks because rent’s free! If life sucks on the outside, it’s worth sacrificing. Without fear of consequences, we face a growing nation of brutality as set by the imagination of the uncaring.

It’s hard to close a mind when so much of it’s come true.