OK, so unless you've fallen off the face of the earth, you've heard that Osama Bin Ladin, founder of the jihadist organization al-Qaeda, responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets, was shot and killed. (1) It's suspicious how he was shot and buried at sea right away (I'm not thoroughly convinced that it was him). (2) Obama is taking credit, when he was in fact determined to pull troops back and stop searching for him. (3) It was wrong to kill him. He should have been captured, not killed. (4) The TV has been nothing but rejoicing and bragging, Americans boasting that he was killed. That's asking for trouble -- might as well paint a target on our heads. The cocky, prideful attitudes that they're showing on TV is disgusting. No one should rejoice over someone else's death.
Yes, he was a terrorist. Yes he was bad. But you know what? We have no right to kill anyone. It is not our place to judge when it is someone's time to die. We as humans have no right to take anyone else's life. That's God's job, not ours. Be it Hitler, Hussein, or Bin Ladin, it is not our duty to play God. Why? Because this takes away the person's right to reconcile with God. Someone at work today said "oh, he'd never reconcile for his sins." You don't know that. And especially now, he'll never get that chance. I don't believe in the death penalty. Not only do you have to take into account the killed, but the killer. The person who pulled the trigger, flipped that switch, or injected that poison has committed a mortal sin. May God have mercy on their souls.
And I still think it all sounds very staged and suspicious. But, hail our government, right? Arg!
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