Vengeance and Justice

A thought on the killing of Osama bin Laden, and the responses to it:

There's no moral equivalency between shooting Osama bin Laden and the mass murder of non-combatants on September 11.

However, the Internet was abuzz with glee about the thing.  

Self-indulgent emotions of vengeance are to justice what pornography is to sex.

Update on Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 9:19AM by Otter

It seems many pastors had some difficulty sorting this one out.

It's a pity that so many Christians miss the point of being "like Jesus in his sufferings."  But I do feel sad for men and women whose livelihood depends on making the impossibly difficult message of Jesus easy for 21st century Americans.  

Comments

[Sandra]

http://chroniclesofachristianheretic.blogspot.com/2011/05/and-dawns-morning-after.html

you given an excellent and vivid answer to one of the many questions that this blood lust of the last two days has inspired. I am reposting to my FB page.

[Otter]

Thank you, Sandra.... it's always an honor to find myself mentioned in your pages. Your blog is a fine and wonderfully clear-headed one.

[Sandra]

From someone who complains about the illogical inarticulations of other writers (or people who write, not at all the same thing), that is high praise. And I take it gratefully for I often feel as though I am not able to put my thoughts into words very well.