Qana Update:
Some will say, "Consider the source! It's an Israeli paper! How can we trust the translation?" The same could be said for the New York Times... Especially the New York Times! So, having got that out of the way, YNetNews has posted the following story:
Lebanese website blames Hizbullah for Qana deaths
According to the article, Hezbollah moved disabled children into the building and provoked Israel into attacking. Despicable... Evil... if true, but since it seems Israel may not have even struck the building in question...
I have to quote Jack H at Forgotten Prophets on this one:
It is hard for me to visualize this. I can't imagine the life and upbringing required to become such a monster. It's foreign to me... incomprehensible... as incomprehensible as understanding what it is to be a woman. Or to be dead.
What kind of monster can do these things and still think God will reward him for his service? With virgins, no less!
And what kind of fool is it, that can look in a camera with straight face and complete sincerity and say such people deserve our respect?
And how do I balance an honest desire to see such monsters utterly destroyed and still call myself a follower of Christ?
Lebanese website blames Hizbullah for Qana deaths
According to the article, Hezbollah moved disabled children into the building and provoked Israel into attacking. Despicable... Evil... if true, but since it seems Israel may not have even struck the building in question...
I have to quote Jack H at Forgotten Prophets on this one:
Terrorism equals dead innocent people. That's its definition, and its highest aim. Kill children, or get them killed by hiding among them and killing from them. Sure, causing general mayhem is really good, but it's a distant second. Burning down the forests of Israel? Sure -- it's damage, and that's a good thing, to terrorists. Poisoning wells, and turning the milk sour, and causing withered arms and impotence, and working all manner of mischief -- all well and good, to terrorists. But there is a difference between bother, or even hardship, and terror. I am convinced that the name "terrorist" is self-selected. It's not just an unusually apt description. Terror is the goal.
It is hard for me to visualize this. I can't imagine the life and upbringing required to become such a monster. It's foreign to me... incomprehensible... as incomprehensible as understanding what it is to be a woman. Or to be dead.
What kind of monster can do these things and still think God will reward him for his service? With virgins, no less!
And what kind of fool is it, that can look in a camera with straight face and complete sincerity and say such people deserve our respect?
And how do I balance an honest desire to see such monsters utterly destroyed and still call myself a follower of Christ?
from the mind of... Eric | 9:18 PM
2 Comments:
The love of Christ was an impossible possibility for us. But we're to try. Aim, fire, miss. Aim, fire miss. ...
Well, let's see ... we're human, fallible, with emotions and common sense. We're able to recognize evil when it is displayed so publicy, so often.
What you are feeling is a legitimate response to unabashed Evil. That's one reason we can support a governmental response, including war-like actions, to such horrors ("Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. Render unto GOD that which is GOD's."). Nothing wrong with it. Keep praying for the end of evil, and the healing of the people involved. Those're both the Christian response.
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