Weekly Devotion: ‘Tis the Season for Retribution?
Deny, Defend, and Depose.
Those words were written on the bullets a young man used to assassinate the CEO of United Health Care.
In the span of a week, the shooter has become a folk hero, and the CEO, a vanquished villain.
There was a shooter look-alike contest in New York. Online merch with those 3 D’s has been flying off the shelves. The McDonald’s where the suspect was apprehended has been flooded with one-star reviews for turning him in.
I’m saddened to think about how some of us are drawn to celebrating the murder of this man while preparing for Christmas at the same time. Something about that doesn’t seem right.