Re: bin laden is dead?
"Karl Swenson" <[email protected]>
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I am kind of with Johne. My initial reaction was "finally". Does that me a shameful human being? I can live the shame at being glad that an evil man responsible for killing thousands of people, responsible for changing the word forever with his hated and who is the totem for even more evil doers is dead. Were he captured, my relief would be the same. Now I am just brooding on the effect this will have everywhere. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter T. Chattaway Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 9:48 PM To: DADL (off topic) Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] bin laden is dead? On Sun, 1 May 2011, Johne Cook wrote: > Had my own Jeff Overstreet encounter tonight. Shhhh! We're not using real names here! :) >> @Jeff_Overstreet <http://twitter.com/#%21/Jeff_Overstreet> Jeffrey >> Overstreet A human life has ended. Not an occasion for punchlines or >> boasting. No matter who it is. FWIW, I wouldn't say it's *not* a time for these things, but I *would* say that celebration needs to tempered by a recognition of our common mortality. Death is too awful a thing to be celebrated full-stop. > He then quoted Proverbs 24:17 at me in a tweet that he has apparently > since deleted. Wow, that was directed at you? I haven't seen the tweet yet, BTW, but I did get a text message when he posted that verse as a status update to his "fan page". > I looked up the verse, and indeed, it suggests not to gloat when an > enemy falls. But, nuts to that. I would have celebrated Hitler's death > as well, and I am who I am, warts and all. It's interesting to see how both the Bible and Christian tradition point in both directions on this sort of thing. In the Orthodox liturgy, there are bits about how we should embrace those who hate us, etc., but at the same time there are songs celebrating the gruesome death of Arius, etc. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot