A columnist in the most recent TIME writes about Cho Seung Hui, of Virginia Tech. He says that the murderer’s problem was not guns but his narcissism, his extreme, radical self-centeredness.
Granted, yes; man’s problem is always narcissism.
But what can we do about it?
Every baby is a born narcissist, but normally it learns that there are other people on this planet and it learns to adjust, or at least to some reasonable extent, with fellow-humans. Except the like of Cho.
God has given the world one great Healer of narcisissim; as Great Mental Physician, He is able to heal even a Cho and save us from those 32 murders of the flower of our university youth. (There have been several would-be copycat Cho’s already.) But how can Jesus Christ, the most non-Narcissist of all time and eternity, make contact with the Cho’s that are out there waiting for their flare-ups?
There must be some living entity of humans who understand Him and can disclose to the world in meaningful terms what His precious anti-narcisissm is; it is reasonable to understand that the Father so loves the world that He will publish the message if that living entity of humanity can comprehend and grasp it clearly enough to communicate it.
That of course must be His church, His “body” of believers; there’s no need to berate ourselves as that “body,” but we can inquire what could any church in the area whence Cho emerged have done to reach him? He wouldn’t even say hello to his roommate, who doubtless gave up in despair trying to communicate.
But right there may be a clue to prevent the next massacre: there’s a form of love that never loses patience (1 Cor. 13:8). It can penetrate the murky depths of labyrinthine subterranean channels deep in an alienated human heart, because it has grown to appreciate that the world’s Savior has been right where Cho was, but condemned the sin in human nature (Rom. 8:3, 4). Christ cried on a cross, “My God, why have You forsaken Me?” This twisted wreck of humanity at Virginia Tech was in hell; let’s not berate ourselves for our inevitable failures; but let’s seek to understand agape. By God’s grace we may someday somehow help some “Cho” somewhere.
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