Sunday, April 29, 2018

Another Misplaced Warning

A leader in The Episcopal Church told us of this "hate crime" the other day, offering it as an example of the Trump-encouraged anti-Semitism that is rampant, RAMPANT in our society.

Yeah, about that:
Police said Harris confessed in a recorded interview that he knocked over around 130 gravestones at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery. The estimated damage was over $30,000. The incident came at a time when bomb threats were being phoned into Jewish community centers across the country. 
According to our news partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a friend dropped Harris off near the cemetery after an argument that evening. He told authorities that he took his anger out on the monuments at Chesed Shel Emeth and was under the influence of drugs.

Is our society more coarse?  If so, in part it's because clergy are quick to blame, in service to a secular political ideology, rather than offer words that heal societal division.