So the newsman says Bin Laden is dead and all around folks erupt into a spontaneous "Hooray" over his death. I suppose it makes me a bad American but I cannot understand why? I realize of course that the crimes he committed were heinous and that his ilk is a blot on the face of the Earth... I get it. But I cannot celebrate the death of another human being no matter who he is.
I am firmly convinced that there is a Hell and that it is place that people go to forever. That being said I cannot rejoice over a man going there.
Why?
Ezekiel 33 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... "
Luke 6 "But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either."
Please ya'll do not allow yourselves to cheer for the death of your enemy. It is your enemy who cheers for your death and you call him a monster and a brute. So if he, by his actions, has reduced you to brutality in like fashion, then no matter what you have won you have lost.
I am happy that the world is a safer place and that one more tyrant will no longer be able to spread his hate and violence, but I am not happy that a living soul has been slain because I am sure my God is not happy. Therefore..
"We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side." Abraham Lincoln.
Ya'll be blessed.
