Posted on 08/02/2006 3:16:20 AM PDT by aerotsmith
Israel's air attack on Qana on July 30 resulted in the death of 37 children.
Hezbelloh has been accused on using civilians, including children, as human shields. The Israeli government claims that the death of innocent children was a "tragic mistake."
Regardless of the underlying facts, 37 precious children are dead. Victims of non-ending war in the Middle East.
Media images of those dead and mutilated children are haunting reminders of the horror of war and the carnage visited upon the most innocent and vulnerable among us.
Seeing dead and suffering children also brings to mind the stern warning issued by Jesus in Matthew 18: 6:
'But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.'
Jesus made no allowances for 'Collateral Damage' or 'Tragic Mistakes,' all too common during a bloody war.
The millstone would appear to apply to all who harm His 'Little Ones.'
However, although Jesus made no mention of intent, one can safely assume that the darkest, most punishing, corners of hell are reserved for those who deliberately use innocent children to wage war by using their young bodies as weapons of mass destruction.
Indeed, deliberately forcing a child to strap explosives to his or her body as a suicide bomber just to kill civilians, including other innocent children, is beyond comprehension.
Such barbaric behavior must surely be far more grievous than being party to an act of war in which children are mistakenly, and unintentionally, harmed.
Nearly 2000 years after Jesus, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Mier remarked that peace will be realized in the Middle East at such time as Muslim Arabs love their children more than they hate the Israelis.
Unfortunately, that day has not yet arrived.
Man's inhumanity toward man continues unabated, including unspeakable offenses against the world's 'Little Ones.'
Woe be unto those!
rtas=rats(dems)
That should've been "a sign-up date of only a couple of months old", not "days". Sheesh!
They were defending a talking points of our "foes". I have never reported abuse on anyone. I consider political debate as sometimes a bare knuckle blood sport, and if you can't take a few punches, you should be hanging out on a gardening or tea site. :)
Shall I post a rant about how lovely a blue sky and a cool breeze are? Why are we stating the obvious and simple?
IMHO our time would be better spent discussing the dreadful moral truth that sometimes starting a terrible war today will prevent an even worse disaster tomorrow. If we just wring our hands and babble about how awful what we have NOW is, we may forget that worse things are possible.
Or am I missing something?
Jesus lived in a time when wars were fought with honor on a recognized battlefield between opposing armies. The terrorists of today deliberately put children in front of them as human shields.
You respond like a liberal....
No substance...no counter point...just an attack.
It seems to me that "offending the little ones" would include strapping suicide belts on them and sending them to Israeli pizza parlors.
Arafat and his ilk had over FORTY YEARS in which to train two generations on how to kill both themselves and others to get what they want. When mothers are proud that their sons blew themselves up and killed little children at the same time, how can we reason with these people?
At some point the only language they'll understand is moment of silence before the daisycutter hits.
And why was it OK when Nasrallah the butcher nonchalantly called the two little Israeli Arab boys who were killed "martyrs"? And why didn't the Muslim hordes consider the children at Qana "martyrs",then? They were proud when they killed the two little boys in Israel,saying that they died for allah,so you'd think just to be consistent,they'd be "proud" of all the martyrs they created by holding helpless children hostage from a rocket-launching site.
I doubt that these children believed in Him, but the offense is no less detestable.
These terrorists -- butchers, really -- have no regard for their own lives or the lives of other muslims. Why should we expect them to have respect for others, especially infidels?
The rot goes to the core with Islam.
I also think his interpretation of the verse is off, but again, I think this is more naivety than a deliberate attempt to smear Israel. Clearly, he strongly attacks Hezbollah, while only slightly implying that Israel might deserve some blame. He's wrong, perhaps, but not an Israel-hater.
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That's exactly right. ;-)
You have the right to your opinion, as do I. My faith is deeper than your argument.
LLS
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