Speaking of a culture of violence

I can’t help but think about our over-the-top rhetoric that is used to censor traditional speech and religious expression, such as this article of mind-numbing lunacy demonstrates.  Christmas songs as forms of intimidation and bullying?  Really?  It’s been said that if everything is something, then that becomes nothing.  So if everyone is a Super, then nobody is a Super (remember that from The Incredibles? ).  Or if everything is racism, then racism ceases to mean anything.  But could it be that we have built a country where everyone thinks everything is evil, where everything is attacks and assaults and bullying?  Could this be affecting folks, young folks, who grow up hearing adults speak as though anything and everything that crosses them is the most vile evil and horrible inhumanity?  Instead of it all becoming nothing, perhaps it’s becoming how young people see the world?  I don’t know.  Maybe there’s nothing to it.  But as I sit back and watch our country splintered into endless divisions of the good and the evil, I just can’t help but imagine that would have to impact me if I grew up in it.  Just a thought.