Just when we thought the response to the Nashville shooting couldn't get any more bizarre, it did. I should've known better.

On Sunday, Pastor Micah Louwagie of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Fargo, North Dakota, gave a sermon that included an analogy between the Nashville shooting and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. This past Sunday was Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week and a time to contemplate the agony Jesus Christ experienced during his crucifixion.

The clip begins with Louwagie focusing on Jesus: "They would kill the one whose reputation as a teacher and healer, and whose mission of love and dignity was so very threatening to their own reputation, that they needed to kill him in order to preserve their own good image."

Okay, I'm with you...

"It's baffling to me that someone's existence can be so threatening that people decide they need to be controlled, they need to have laws made against them, or even worse, that the people that they find to be so threatening should die."

"There are a significant number of people who have deemed the fact that the Nashville shooter happened to be a trans person, so it's been reported, as just the excuse they need to call for the eradication of trans folks."

Aaaaand there it is.

I do not know of any conservatives who want to "eradicate trans people," but that seems to be the newest talking point from the opposition. Eradicating the concept of transgenderism is not the same as eradicating a group of people. The former means giving people counseling and help for gender dysphoria instead of cutting off their genitals when they're fifteen years old. The latter would be genocide and unspeakably evil. So yes, there's a difference.

Not to mention, eradicating the concept of transgenderism serves to uphold the Biblical view of men and woman and affirms that God does not make mistakes. Imagine being a child with gender dysphoria, hearing this all of your life - that God doesn't make mistakes. But then one day, your doctor tells you He actually did, but just with you. And now you need to take hormones and undergo life-changing surgery just to feel okay. How soul-crushing would that be?

That being said, I do think it's possible to have a charitable view of the actual shooter without excusing her actions. The shooter was clearly suffering. She fell victim to the trans cult. This absolutely does not, IN ANY WAY, excuse her choice to carry out evil. But it can serve as a lesson to us all about the necessity of protecting children from radical gender ideology and trying to help people currently stuck in it. Many of them are deeply hurting and need a way out, not condemnation. Right now, the only path offered to them is "gender-affirmation," which doesn't address the root cause of their gender dysphoria. Therefore, it doesn't work. And only leads to more pain.

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Lily is a Zoomer college dropout who somehow landed a writing gig here at LwC.com. In her spare time, she enjoys going for runs, touching grass, and occasionally tweeting tweets for fellow tweeters.

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