My apologies for posting this. It is horrible. But I want to show what some of our kids are listening to. We need national leadership on this topic.
I am going to warn you: this song is very obviously intended to elicit a feeling of revulsion and outrage. It references sadistic murder, and necrophilia. I decided to give you the option of whether or not to actually read the lyrics. The link is here: I cum blood.
Ask yourself: what psychologically normal person listens to things like this? Answer: none. These people are not psychologically healthy. My suspicion is that most of them are atheists, like Loughner, and have deduced nihilism from it. This makes destruction a virtue, and the bright light of frenetic self immolation their only consolation.
Now, this band does not have a lot of fans, I assume. And historically there have always been sick people, many of whom got their jollies in the wars which have happened everywhere in human history.
Nor am I advocating banning them. What I want people to realize is that there exist scientifically sound reasons to believe in something like God, that philosophically sound remedies to moral pessimism exist, and that misery is not endemic to human existence. Happiness is possible, in spite of everything.
When you truly look the Devil in the eye, he always blinks. I know this. I have done it. Never quit: this is my creed, and it works. There are ample reasons for genuine hope.