Multiculturalism and the Horrors of Parkland and Santa Fe

Multiculturalism and the Horrors of Parkland and Santa Fe

​Multiculturalism is America’s new civil religion, replacing the Judeo-Christian framework of our Founding. Multiculturalism sets aside moral truth in favor of acceptance and validation of all beliefs. The ​Judeo-Christian worldview, on the other hand, ​holds that moral truth isn’t merely subjective — it is outside of us and accessible to all. It’s actually the basis for our ability to communicate about and find moral agreement as a society.

We’re now paying an extremely high price for jettisoning moral truth, as evidenced by the unimaginable horror of the recent school shootings in Parkland, Florida and Santa Fe, Texas, where a total of 27 high school-aged kids have been murdered, and many more seriously injured.

​Legitimizing our Natural Ethic of ​Self-Love

Jesus said, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” and even, “Love your enemies.” Per Multiculturalism, those are narrow sectarian notions that only have relevance to Christian believers.

At a practical level, molding kids into loving servants of others is an impossibly gargantuan task, especially for parents who haven’t remotely mastered ​it​ themselves. Further, living in a multicultural society that trivializes biblical truth makes it exponentially ​more difficult to convince children to ​reject their ​natural ethic of self-love.

To the extent we buy into Multiculturalism, America will become a culture few really want to live in. Namely, a place where the horrors of Parkland and Santa Fe are commonplace.

Multiculturalism and the Horrors of Parkland

Let’s agree on the wisdom of policies that would keep mentally ill persons, like Cruz, from getting guns. Perhaps a gun law would have provided one last chance to stop the massacre — but it should never have reached that point.

The Parkland murders were the culmination of a staggering sequence of human apathy and failure, depressingly detailed in this Washington Post report.

A Florida newspaper stunningly noted​ the following:

Social workers, mental health counselors and school administrators — the front line of defense for many young adults — documented and dismissed red flags during home visits and school evaluations, the records show.

“Mr. Cruz stated he plans to go out and buy a gun,” an investigator with Florida’s Department of Children and Families wrote in Sept. 28, 2016, four days after he turned 18 and six months before he legally bought the assault rifle. “It is unknown what he is buying the gun for.”

Police visited the family home dozens of times, but there is no indication what action, if any, officers took. As recently as January, the FBI received a tip about Cruz and his “desire to kill people,” but the information was never forwarded for investigation, the bureau confirmed Friday.

Further on in the piece, this telling comment emerges:

“Every single red flag was present,” said Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein. “If this kid was missed, there is no system.”

Cruz’s  biological mother was a known drug addict, who gave birth to his brother while in prison, but that hardly seemed worth mentioning in many of the news accounts we saw. He and his victims are an outgrowth of our crumbling family infrastructure, now weightily anchored to personal preferences. But that’s a story for another day.

We can’t be certain yet if or how the Santa Fe killings might have been prevented. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, noted that there were no obvious warning signs. But, we learned quickly that the shooter, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, had taken to wearing a black, Columbine-like trench coat to school that bore disturbing symbols, including a “baphomet,” worn by Satanists. Moreover, he had posted a photo of himself on social media wearing a tee shirt emblazoned with the words, “Born to Kill.” Nope, nothing to see here! Besides, Multiculturalism forbids us from treating Satanism with less respect than any other religion. 

The Broken System is Us

The most monstrous cop-out of our time may be, “the system is broken.”

A system is a legal and organizational structure. In it, people fulfill defined roles and carry out prescribed tasks.

Yet, “systems” are devoid of incarnational love. They can’t love, and so they are ill-equipped to prevent catastrophes. Only people can do that. In fact, by entrenching and legitimizing unaccountability, “systems” can contribute to mayhem. Only one person, to our knowledge, has lost his job among all those who had the chance to impede Nikolas Cruz. How is that possible? Because, apart from Cruz, it wasn’t anyone’s fault. It was, “the system’s.”

Only people can resist and push back against every bureaucracy’s natural drift toward callousness and un-accountability. Nikolas Cruz wasn’t solely responsible for those 17 murders; an impersonal “system” was, too. In short, all the people in the “system” who failed to love their neighbors as themselves.

Multiculturalism ​radically diminishes ​the idea of moral truth and of personal accountability to God for loving our neighbors and enemies. Had just a single person “in the system” acted diligently upon these biblical laws, 17 young people would still be alive today.

So, we must dispense with the notion that guns are the only or even the primary issue before us after Parkland; or that, having passed gun law(s), we can rest in the knowledge that mass shootings are a thing of the past.

​As a nation, we must ​consider ​whether we’ll be happy living in a country that neglects and ​marginalizes biblical moral truth in favor of Multiculturalism.​Should we continue with our ill-advised Multiculturalist experiment, we’d better get used to more heartbreaking results.