Posted on 04/29/2007 6:14:12 PM PDT by SJackson
Par for the course for the MSM, who regularly call terrorists "insurgents."
This article is spot on. We have forgotten how to hate. It is now politically incorrect to hate our enemies.
Ping of interest.
What a disingenuous article. Mark Hacking will never get out of prison.
Or “Freedom Fighters.”
I was always under the impression that the reason for the use of “shooter” and “gunman” wasn’t to down play the roll of the killer- it was to emphasize the gun’s useage in such a crime.
Calling them a killer places the blame on the person. Calling them a shooter envokes thoughts of guns.
Food for thought.
Don’t hate a rabid dog, it’s a waste of time. Just shoot it in the head and get it over with.
We aren’t allowed a sense of outrage, either. Witness the reluctance of MSM to publish pictures of people jumping from the Trade Towers. Outrage might sustain the will to win a war on terror. Can’t have that.
Calling the VTech killer shooter goes hand in hand with calling the massacre itself a tragedy.
Hate and anger have their uses and only a society in its death throes finds them intolerable.
Is this Judaism? Really? If so, then there is a world of difference between Christianity and Judaism!
Jesus loved, and redeemed Saul of Tarsus who was killing Christians. Jesus Christ told Saul that when Saul was persecuting Christians he was really persecuting Christ Himself.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus, Matthew 5
Love does NOT offer mushy-headed excuses for evil, nor does it seek to enable evildoers by failing to see justice done.
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Love and hate are opposite sides of the same coin. If you love something or someone deeply, then threats to that object or person, or that which destroys or injures either will be hated.
On the other hand, if you are indifferent to a matter, or to an individual, you will neither love nor hate, merely observe, or just ignore the whole situation involving that issue or person.
No, that’s not the way it is at all.
So you want us to hate our enemies? Nothing new. We all want to hate our enemies. That’s the natural order of things. However, I have it on good authority that this ain’t supposed to be the case...
43”You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
44But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?
47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?
48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
(Matthew 5:43-48 NIV)
So don’t tell me I have to hate my enemies.
I respectfully disagree.
Correct observation — the media calls criminals “shooters”, so that all shooters (including victims defending themselves) become similarly perceived.
“You forced me to do it!”
What, by not sending out more police and camera crews when he only killed two people?
Right- it’s not a question of emotion. Passion, maybe, but feelings will just get you killed.
Control your feelings, and seek calculated justice. Enemies are only neutralized by men. Real vengeance - or mercy - belongs to God.
Saul of Tarsus repented. Cheo kept on killing. I hate evil and evil people. Yes, both exist.
RoK
“Saul of Tarsus repented. Cheo kept on killing. “
Nonsense.
Saul repented when we was struck to the ground - well after he killed many Christians. Christ loved Saul BEFORE he repented.
Christ prayed for those who crucified him.
Cheo was an evil person, consumed with hate. Christ came into the world to save people exactly like him. Cheo departed this life without receiving Christ’s forgiveness and will be seperated from him forever.
Christ’s exampe was to overcome evil with good. To miss that is to miss the ENTIRE point of his teaching.
This is the hardest teaching in the Bible (to me anyway) but I think you have hit it on the head. I cannot say I am able to follow it 100% but I think we are supposed to try.
FWIW it’s much easier for those of us not personally touched to say we don’t hate, or to forgive or whatever. To me that’s pretty meaningless anyway. It’s the person who is personally touched, and yet still forgives and lets go of hate that is to be most humbly and deeply admired, and in fact imitated. I don’t know if I could do that, I hope I never have to find out.
susie
I dunno about y'all, but after 9/11 I started hating muzzie-homicide-bombers, and I still do!
They're evil, and so was Cho. This Cho-killer is dead, so it's pointless to hate him ................ FRegards
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