A Collection of Thoughts on Osama Bin Laden's Assassination
" ... rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer."
- Romans 13:4
“Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles or is overthrown.”
- Proverbs 24:17
"Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?"
- Ezekiel 33:11
"I support our president and military and I recognize the immeasurable price they pay to protect the shores of the not-so-United States of America. Yet, I’m confused by our response. Has hate been buried? Has violence come to its end? As the theologian Brian McLaren says, “Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we learning anything, or simply spinning harder in the cycle of violence?” God have mercy."
- Shaun Whitehead
How can anyone who claims to know God as He is presented in the Bible celebrate at the death of anyone who does not?
- Meg Maxon
"I believe in justice, absolutely! God is a God of justice. But celebrating the death of someone in the form of saying we are glad he is dead, is NOT right, no matter who they are or what they did. Christ died so that all would be saved, not just some. We should be grieved as the Father would be by loosing yet another one of His creations for eternity."
- Chris Edwards
It is not the death of a person that is being celebrated. It may appear that the excitement coming from the population is based entirely on the death of a human being, but the celebrated death is that of the metaphysical
ReplyDeleteOsama Bin Laden Was not just a person. To the people you and I encounter, he represents a terror that our country has lived under for ten years. Thoughts of Osama Bin Laden do not conjure images of a single Muslim man. They provoke thoughts of an entire generation of children raised relish moments in which people different to them die and suffer. They reflect upon thousands of people being needless killed for belief that no human being can ever rationally be sure of.
I would argue that the United States population is not relieved over the death of a person. They are relieved in the same sense that a programmer is relieved after repairing a single bug in an architecture full of them. The relief is short lived and will be forgotten in no time at all. The world is full of terror's difficult to imagine and a relief like this is difficult to come by.