The Patriot Post® · Thursday Opinion

Best of Right Opinion

• Rich Lowry: The Great Regulatory Rollback
• Larry Elder: If ‘No One Wants to Take Our Guns,’ Stop Saying the Opposite
• Ann Coulter: Media Begging Us for Conspiracy Theories on Las Vegas
• Victor Davis Hanson: It’s 1968 All Over Again

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Opinion in Brief

R. Emmett Tyrrell: “In the aftermath of the most deadly massacre in American history, a friend asked, ‘Why would God allow a man to wreak so much carnage?’ The enormous violence clearly weakened my friend’s belief in God. It should not have weakened it. Who else, or what other agent, is around to take the place of the Uncaused Cause? God caused the universe to exist, and as to why God would allow the Las Vegas carnage to take place, it is because God created us with free will. This explains many of the imponderables of history. We have free will to choose between good and evil. On the evening of Oct. 1, a particularly evil human being again chose evil, and now he will repose forever in hell. That explains the atrocity. Yet it does not help us to prevent further atrocities, whether by lone murderers or jihadis or dictators hell-bent on world war. Evil will always be out there, and mankind is free to choose it over the good until the end of time.”