tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528170608960559102.post4966069137783290867..comments2024-02-28T16:41:30.442-05:00Comments on Restore-DC-Catholicism: Bin Laden's Death - The Appropriate ResponseRestore-DC-Catholicismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17478857915379063106noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528170608960559102.post-20184369051835217882011-06-01T00:25:40.619-04:002011-06-01T00:25:40.619-04:00http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&page...http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=305193Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528170608960559102.post-34667697498021458752011-05-13T21:23:19.803-04:002011-05-13T21:23:19.803-04:00Anonymous, your first two comments survived the Bl...Anonymous, your first two comments survived the Blogger crash. Neither my reply nor your third comment did. I did point to Ezekiel 18:32 to illustrate that God rejoices in the death of no one. My main point was to say that 1:55 post is a bit of stretch, to say that uncertainty about bin Laden's fate somehow permits rejoicing. If anything, it precludes it.Restore-DC-Catholicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17478857915379063106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528170608960559102.post-62602612500062190142011-05-11T20:43:12.364-04:002011-05-11T20:43:12.364-04:00Anonymous, you're grasping at ridiculous straw...Anonymous, you're grasping at ridiculous straws. If you can't make an assumption one way, you can't make it the other way, either - as though that would give carte-blanche permission for reveling in someone's death, which it doesn't. There is no justification for gloating and chortling about the death of any person. But if you insist on "chapter and verse", how Restore-DC-Catholicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17478857915379063106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528170608960559102.post-23610360246756662862011-05-11T01:55:42.380-04:002011-05-11T01:55:42.380-04:00Forgot something... The quote of Ezekiel is absol...Forgot something... The quote of Ezekiel is absolutely correct - I certainly agree. However, since it is God Himself who is speaking, when he refers to the "wicked", he is referring to those who are damned. I cannot make that assumption about anybody, even bin Laden. So... The death alone (regardless of circumstances) of the damned is a pitiable thing, worthy of every sorrow we canAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528170608960559102.post-38773732249549836232011-05-11T01:48:26.818-04:002011-05-11T01:48:26.818-04:00Death is an a-moral action, i.e. the act and fact ...Death is an a-moral action, i.e. the act and fact of dying are morally neutral. Killing may be moral or immoral depending on circumstance. The Church has always supported the (at least theoretical) use of the death penalty as a matter of self defense. Lately she has shied away from this due to the efficacy of modern prisons. That said, it is at least doubtful that prison would work for bin Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com