Sigmund, Carl and Alfred make me think a lot. And, sometimes, they put up a post which resonates so deeply that I cannot put my joy into words. Such is their offering today: All God, All The Time.
There is another truth that needs to be reiterated. What distinguishes real believers is their reluctance to kill and their distaste for it. Irrespective of the cause, even a cause seemingly just, killing is never the goal. The cost of a military victory is understood. Eisenhower and other Allied generals visited the Death Camps and wept, and then went into the coldest rage a human can muster- unlike their German counterparts, who posed for pictures and laughed at the plight of the 30 million dead souls. The heirs to the Nazis, the Islamists have posed for pictures with the heads of those they have decapitated. Palestinians bare bloodied hands, some holding human entrails, of Israelis they have butchered. They have filmed themselves kicking a decapitated head about on a field, as if it were just another soccer field. All the while, mosques celebrate these barbarities with music and sweet pastries.
We do not kill with joy. We do not place civilians, or schoolchildren or the sick an infirm in harms way. We do not engage an enemy, hiding behind children. We develop weapons that are ever more accurate. Others develop weapons with labratory developed poisons that can be ever more widely dispersed- and they have used them.
To kill with joy and to celebrate death, is to disregard God. To commit terror and celebrate the deaths of innocents, is to dishonor God and to refute his Dominion. Those who disregard His message corrupt and debase His message. Those who find justification or apology for such acts, or blame the victim, disgrace themselves and their faith. In the assembly of believers, they accomplish nothing but to shame themselves and their communities.
This is the difference between Islam and Judaism/Christianity. Yes. The Judeo-Christian ethic is life, and the protection of it; to live honestly and openly, at peace with God and man; and to obey God Almighty in love and trust in His grace and mercy.
Go read the rest, especially the links SC&A have posted. Superb reading!
