He deserves NOTHING! He supported abortion and let that young lady drown to death. I hope he is burning in HELL! Cant put it any more clear.
As sinful as the individual was, no Christian should ever make that statement. And if they do, they are no better than the object of their anger.
You put your own soul in peril, issuing a curse like that.
Ted Kennedy, in life, was almost invariably in opposition to Christian principles. He was a powerful man who used his power in ungodly ways. He wasn’t just made wealthy, but was born wealthy due to the corruption of his father’s generation. He had some weird, almost hypnotic hold over the voters of Massachussetts, that is inexplicable to an outsider, especially a southerner who is not Catholic, such as myself.
I can only make sense of it in terms of some relict, immigrant cliquishness, gone on a half century too long. Catholicism was and is a common thread between the more recent immigrant groups, even to this day, and so it appeared that his support was Catholic. It was the children and grandchildren of Irish and Italian immigrants, though, coincidentally Catholic, who were held in the man’s sway.
This is another opportunity for the Catholic church, like Notre Dame was earlier, to make plain the truths of the matter. I’m sorry to say, I don’t expect to hear anything other than the politically expedient thing, the easy thing, the “ear tickling” thing.
But, Ted Kennedy is dead, and his sins are between himself and his Maker now. Outrage and condemnation of the man serves no purpose. Outrage and condemnation of the beliefs he so devastatingly represented, in direct opposition to his church, does serve a purpose, though.
Try to deal with it in this context.
your hopes are satisfied each day, as thousands, millions, of counter-culture secularists die each year. “Hell, it is the place where poor sinners go.”
They don’t need any help getting to hell. And, of course, hell is not the solution. It is the problem.
“as we forgive those who trespass against us.” “Pray for your enemies.” ... These are merely suggestions, but I think leftist politicos qaulify as trespassers.
Not me. I hope he got his salvation through Christ. We all deserve hell my friend if not for Jesus---don't wish hell on him despite all his many flaws.