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May 11
Should Christians Rejoice That Osama Is Dead?
On the heels of the rejoicing and celebrations that a mass murderer has been brought to justice, some Christians are immediately coming out with statements that being happy over someone’s death isn’t a very Jesus thing to do.
Predictably leading the charge is Brian MacLaren who had this to say:
I can only say that this image does not reflect well on my country, especially in contrast to the images that have been so strong here in recent days … revelers celebrating a wedding.
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?
The Vatican chimed in with this:
Faced with the death of a man, a Christian never rejoices, but reflects on the serious responsibility of each and every one of us before God and before man, and hopes and commits himself so that no event be an opportunity for further growth of hatred, but for peace.
Which leads me to wonder why God put Ps. 58:10-11 in the Bible
“The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.”
I guess all those martyrs who are under altar screaming out for justice in Revelation 6:9-10 really should just shut up and sing Kum ba yah instead .
There is a righteous vengeance. And Jesus is the one who will ultimately execute it upon all the wicked. Rejoicing in justice is a very Jesus thing to do. It is not evil to rejoice that this murderer has been brought to his earthly end.
We celebrate justice. It happens to come in the form of death this time.
What B said.
Props to the Prez, it was a gutsy call.
I see you could not come up with a quote from the NT-the Revelation quote is not asking the navy seals to carry out an extrajudicial murder. If you had a brain in your empty head you might wonder: perhaps it would be better to bring this man to US or to World court for trial-maybe we might LEARN some things about 911-but of course that is of no concern to you.
By the way, since you are so righteously rejoicing in the just punishment of the guilty, can I book you a seat at the war crimes trials of Bush, Chaney, Rice, Powell and their neo-con janissaries or should I say minions?
I did not notice you give the war monger Obama any props for wacking Osama-assuming this whole event was not a psyops.