An gunman opened fire at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. today, firing several shots and killing a security guard. The Washington Post report highlighted the fact that children were among the terrified victims visiting the museum when the shooting occurred. The man who committed the crime is eighty-eight years old, and a long-time white supremacist. He wanted his very last act on earth, it seems, to be killing Jews at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. This event certainly signals that anti-Semitism is still alive and well in the United States. The fact that the shooter is elderly, and has spent much of his life nourishing his own hatred and that of others by writing racist literature, gives me pause. His life's work was creating hate.
In such cruel and hateful agendas, I find my belief that no one is beyond the love of God compromised. The hatred expressed in this act of terror is a reminder of the sheer evil any of us are capable of. It is especially heinous when we commit evil which we mistake for righteousness.
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