• School shooting in Germany: what causes suicide-Massacres?

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The BBC is reporting that Tim Kretschmer, a former pupil of Albertville-Realschule (secondary/high school) in Winnenden (near Stuttgart in south-western Germany), went to that school with a firearm and killed 12 people, then killed another 3 people outside the school before killing himself.

The BBC says that German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the shootings as “incomprehensible”. Are they really incomprehensible?

Not if you read Proverbs, which says

Doing wickedness is like sport to a fool¹
And so is wisdom to a man of understanding. [Pr 10:23 NASB]

This verse describes one of the symptoms or signs of foolishness¹. Killing other people is definitely wickedness, and there is almost certainly a sporting component for those males who run around shooting people. However, not all fools are killers, so what made Kretschmer and his ilk killers?

Creation Ministries International (formerly Answers In Genesis) presents a compelling case for an evolutionary basis for suicide-massacres, and shows the clear evolutionary beliefs of those who have committed school massacres and the committed suicide. This is from the CMI website in regard to the Columbine High School shootings:

In groping for answers to this and other tragedies, more and more people are expressing surprise and concern at the increasing glee with which many teenagers approach depictions of violence. However, this fixation with death is hardly surprising given that most public schools in Western nations now teach that violence and death are ‘natural’ evolutionary mechanisms that have operated with chance processes to produce man over millions of years.

Having been told since childhood that man is just an animal, that death and violence are a natural part of evolution, and that ‘only the fittest survive,’ it is no wonder that this generation of young people are wallowing in utter hopelessness. Even when they hear ‘Jesus loves you,’ many either do not understand what this can possibly mean in a ‘world of death and randomness,’ or it makes them more angry and bitter that such a beautiful possibility seems denied by the ‘facts’ of science. Many of these people are ‘walking time-bombs,’ without fear of any judgment after death, and primed to explode in anger and hatred at any time.

How can we Christians help defuse these ‘bombs’? Christ is indeed the answer, but in our ‘evolutionized’ society, reaching these young people requires that the church understands and utilizes the truth about our origins.

The true and accurate Genesis account of history enables young and old to understand why this is a groaning and violence-filled world-that death, bloodshed, disease, and suffering are a consequence of sin-but that God so loved the world that He provided His Son as a sacrifice for our sin. Our young people need to know that they are made in the image of God, are sinners separated from their Creator, but can be saved for eternity, and know purpose and meaning in life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Source

Remember that evolutionary education does not excuse the actions of these killers, because God says that his creation (the world around us) makes his nature evident and therefore people who reject him are without excuse.

Remember also that suicide is an extreme act of self-love and selfishness, perhaps surpassed only by murder. Click here to read a biblical defence of that statement (PDF 448 Kb, go to page 13).

I strongly recommend that you read these articles:

• Inside the mind of a killer

• How to build a bomb in the public school system

• Suicide: What’s the problem?

It is probably too simplistic to say the teaching the theory of evolution to children causes school massacres, but it is true to say that an evolutionary world view permits the hedonism and brutality that is prominent in murder-suicides whilst also providing a justification for those actions². If you read the articles that I have linked to above you will see that evolutionary terminology is heavily used by these killers, and I suspect that they did this to provide some sort of excuse for doing what they knew was wrong.

It is always sad when a pagan dies. However, Romans 1 says that such people are without excuse and they are the architects of their own downfall, because they have chosen to reject God despite the fact that he has made his nature clear to everyone. Those who go into schools and kill others before killing themselves only have themselves to blame: they are not victims, as is commonly supposed.

What do you think about the points I have made here and those in the articles that I’ve linked to?

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1. foolishness is poor moral character: see Footnote 2 of my post A Biblical Perspective on Home Schooling and State Schooling

2. see what Aldous Huxley says in this regard

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