...Trump now asking, "Who shot Ashli Babbitt?"
I believe the correct answer is: No one. Soon after the event, whatever it was or wasn't, I saw one of the close-in videos from the time when she still had her eyes open, and noticed her very neutral expression.
In later analyses, it can be seen that people are not very much panicked by the gunfire, that she seems to not be receiving competent medical care, and that there was remarkably little blood spilled for someone who supposedly bled to death.
The information that dribbled out in the aftermath is also suspicious: very little information about the shooter, or the autopsy, and no statement from Trump about the death of one of his own supporters--until now.
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
"A work of creation was three-fold, an earthly trinity to match the heavenly; the Creative Idea, timeless and passionate, which is the image of the Father; the Creative Energy, begotten of the idea and working in time, which is the image of the Word; the Creative Power, the meaning of the work and its response in the individual soul, which is the image of the indwelling Spirit."
-- P. D. James, summarizing Dorothy L. Sayers' description
