The Face of Evil: Anders Behring Breivik

Anders Behring Breivik, unlike Jared Lee Loughner who shot congresswoman Giffords and killed several others (and who looked insane) appears startling in his Nordic normalcy; a madness far hotter and far colder.

Breivik's act of methodical mass murder was a distilled and refined rage purified by ideological fires long burning. His systematic execution of innocents shows the evil efficiency of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Breivik's purported defense of Christendom from Islam, and the media promoting this as his justification, shows a demonic inversion of what Christianity means .

Michael Horton, in his essay A Tale of Two Kingdoms, writes:

"The kingdom of God advances through the proclamation of the Gospel...Instead of driving out the Romans, Jesus commanded a love for our enemies." Read Horton's essay as it is a clear explanation of the Two Cities (God and Man) first developed by Augustine. Dark lies are best dispelled by Truth's light. May light shine out of darkness.

2 Cor. 4:6

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

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