On Sep 13, 2010, at 11:13 PM, Linda Herd wrote:
Loving people also are killed ... You are naive in this instance but
you are a good man.
Linda, why assume we do not know this? Why assume it is naiveté as
opposed to morality and courage?
I do not think that Jeremy or Tom or I are confused about whether bad
people exist or whether we might be killed by them. We don't care. Or,
more to the point, we are more concerned with how we live than with
how we die. Is that not the Messiah's example? If He did not want to
be nailed to a tree, He could have avoided it. Do you not believe He
could have killed the Pharisees and Pilate if He wished? Was He simply
naïve?
We KNOW these people may kill us, but it is not right to strike first
or without need even if that leads to our deaths. Do you not believe
what you believe?
Besides, why single out Muslims for this fear? My chance of being
murdered by a Christian or atheist is much higher, simply because of
the racial/cultural identities of criminals where I live. Specifically
fearing Muslims may shorten your life when you fail to recognize other
threats. I may go around the farm terrified of copperheads,
preemptively slaughtering every snake I see. just to be killed by the
lowly paramecium.
Sincerely,
Eric Vought
"Faith does not absolve us from trying to understand our world and
make moral distinctions with the eyes and brain given us. Religion is
as much responsibility as direction: Duty not Distinction."
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