Posted on 05/12/2011 8:16:36 PM PDT by Jacvin
If anyone out there wants to get me a birthday or Christmas present, or just give me something because I'm such a nice guy, I want the civilian version of the gun that killed bin Laden.
I know. Catholics are not supposed to celebrate the death of anyone, even bin Laden, the way I have.
But like most other conservatives, I do not believe in the perfectibility of the human race. We are flawed beings separated from God by our humanity.
The way I figure it, I probably have a few hundred thousand years ahead of me in purgatory anyway, so what do a few more years matter now?
Is it wrong to celebrate a death guided by the hand of Michael the Archangel?
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“Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the Lord see it and be displeased,
and turn away his anger from him.”
-Proverbs 24:17
I may be deranged, but throngs of Americans cheering at a terrorist’s (albeit deserved) death somehow looked too much like his followers’ behavior on 9/12. Unseemly, IMO. His dispatched existence should pass dispassionately.
You never saw John Wayne celebrate, pound his chest or shoot pistols in the air when he put down the bad guy.
So you agree that his killing was justice.
Justice should ALWAYS be supported and, yes, celebrated especially by us Christians who know how imperfect and incomplete are human attempts to bring justice for crimes. Celebrating justice reinforces the value of justice in human society.
The SEALs did not have the power to cause the loss of bin Laden's soul by "sealing his fate". That power is only in the hands of God.
I’m Catholic and I would have celebrated except they won’t show us a picture of the SOB with two in the head. Until then who knows if he’s really dead.
Ask Jesus if it was “right” to “celebrate” the death of Satan.
LOL!
Same here.
Show me.
Yes, I believe he was justifiably killed. As I said in my first post, the Christian celebrates what God celebrates and mourns what God mourns. So any celebration of the justice served must be tempered by the realization that a man whom God loved lost his soul (assuming our human judgment is correct).
I did not/have not celebrated. IF bin Laden is truly dead (we’ll never know for certain now given that Obozo bin lying made sure no one can examine the body), he is only one person in this war against an political ideology. The war is not over. We have soldiers (including my son) who are serving in harms way. On the day that we are no longer in need of engaging the enemy (due to their defeat and our victory) I will celebrate. Until that day, the death of one man means very little.
Yes, expecially given that many of them are living in much better economic shape than I am busting my hump 60+ hours a week. I've watched quite a number of these "beggars" leave their "day job" driving away in a newer, much nicer vehicle than I have/can afford.
When something evil in ended, of course it is.
I THINK NOT!
I THINK NOT!
Let’s be both joyful and celebrate the triumph of good over evil.
Dead reds, fascists, racists, and jihadists is “good”.
Or, in the vernacular, “Kill them, tag ‘em, bag’em, and get rid of them”. Fish and ants have to eat too.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
Nice guys end up dead, so I’m through being a nice guy.
Sure.
God says the righteous should take delight in the defeat of evil.
What happened after the battle of Jericho?
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