But are they the exception, or the rule?
Is there a point at which you finally do throw in the towel?
Posted on 11/21/2001 7:53:40 AM PST by Jeff Head
Praise God.
I believe she was sincere and is a good person ... so we shall see.
There are many others in that faith who are unwilling at all to consider condemnation of such atrocity and those are either in fact, or in waiting, the enemies of liberty, truth, justice, virte and Godly love.
Whether we are the tool of its dispensing, or some other, it is nonetheless sure.
Free will governed by moral constraint is self government and the very essence of this Republic. It is the jewel for which we fight and for which we thank God in Heaven.
No Free will is tyranny.
Free will ungoverned by moral constraint is anarchy and invariably leads to the same tyranny.
God grant that we as a people will retain the virtue to understand these basic principles.
take that, whitey!
I speak for none other.
But, in my experience, a mind consumed by revenge, or a purpose filled with that desire ... is a torch that will bunr itself up with its own fuel.
Justice on the other hand, can be meted out with some degree of precision (despite our being imperfect mortals) and allows one to retain the moral constraint necessary to quench the flame that would otherwise consume all.
Justice in war is the vriety of which I speak and is however much more harsh, and a more fitting retribution than the justice in America's current civilian jurice prudence system. It is that type of justice of which I speak, where the effort is made at moral constraint, but the rightous indignation and the requirement to destroy those involved is not set aside.
Again, just my experience and my thoughts on the matter ... but I believe historically and morally accurate.
But are they the exception, or the rule?
Is there a point at which you finally do throw in the towel?
But when I got over there to hold that little critter ... all of that vanished in an instance. Now, I am PROUD tp be a granddad!
... and who wouldn't?
If you're being sarcastic and don't like this thread ... I am sincerely sorry ... use your perogative and boycott it.
Regards.
Keep up the good work on that writing. The world needs to know that while we are not bigots, we aren't stupid either.
If it means killing them all, or compelling them to deny their faith on pain of death, imprisoment or expulsion (I'm talking about US citizens here) simply because it might be construed badly ... then no.
If it means killing those who abjectly show by their actions and their words a desire to kill and destroy liberty and free will and all those things I talked about here ... then my friend, I have already thrown in that towel.
I can say, from my own experience (meaning my travels around the world and my work with people of that faith), that there are enough Muslims who are good, moral, upright people (even if I disagree with their theology) that I cannot in good conscience throw in that towel purely based on their religious preference.
Now, in times of war like this, when it comes to non-citizens ... meaning people here on visas or here illegally ... I say we close the borders to them and expel them for the duration. Not because I hate their religion, but because we cannot take the risk.
Then, any citizen or non-citizen left in the country who gives comfort and abets the enemy, they are treated harshly as either a traitor or a spy.
These are the things (IMHO) we should be doing.
Thanks.
hope all is well over in that Ohio River country.
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