I just read this interesting story over at Women of Grace.

Turns out that the Jared Loughner, the Arizona shooter, was not under the influence of Tea Party politics – he was under the influence of Satan:

An altar containing articles used in occult ceremonies has been uncovered in the backyard of Jared Loughner, the man accused of shooting 19 people, six of whom died, at a congresswoman’s public event in Tucson on Saturday.

The New York Daily News is reporting that investigators found a shrine hidden in a camouflage tent behind Loughner’s Tucson home. The altar contained a skull sitting on a pot filled with shriveled oranges. A row of ceremonial candles and a bag of potting soil lay nearby. Experts said all the items are elements typically featured in occult ceremonies.

I worry with all the television shows and books on witchcraft, magic, and the occult, young people are more frequently exposing themselves to the demonic forces.

If so, I hate to say it, Jared Loughner won’t be the last.

Let us pray and do penance. As Saint Paul wrote:

“For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places” (Eph 6:12).