Notes from Gareth Higgins and Scott Derrickson on the Shootings in Colorado...

Some thought-provoking reflections on the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, from the Facebook page of the honorable Gareth Higgins (mastermind of the Wild Goose Festival):

There are at least two things each of us can do in response. We can learn to thoughtfully lament, which includes caring for those who suffer; and we can learn about how the myth of redemptive violence cannot be challenged by more violence, retribution, and othering. We need to get serious about telling new stories about violence. Ironically, one of those new stories is the under-myth presented in the Dark Knight films. It's an error of interpretation to say that the films inspired the violence: the dominant ethical assertion in The Dark Knight Rises is that human beings learning to live with thoughtful, non-reactive, nonlethal, selfless compassion (often at great personal cost) is not only our only hope, but the only thing that works.

Also... this was posted by my friend Scott Derrickson, director of Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose:

And to my fellow Christians and to those cultural conservatives who are starting to blame these murders on THE DARK NIGHT - go run a quick google search on serial killers and mass murderers obsessed with the Bible.