Abortionist Killed.
Posted by waremock on Monday Jun 1, 2009 Under AbortionWith his death Sunday, George Tiller became the eighth person and the fourth doctor killed in abortion-related attacks.
It was the first killing of an abortion provider in more than a decade. Before Sunday, the most recent killing of an abortion provider was on Oct. 23, 1998, when a sniper shot Barnett Slepian in his New York home.
In July 1994, John Britton and his security escort were killed while sitting in a car in the parking lot of a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic.
David Gunn was the first abortion doctor killed when he was shot March 10, 1993, while abortion opponents demonstrated outside his Pensacola clinic.
Headlines like these can leave us somewhat comfused. Deep inside we say to ourselves, yeah, justiced was served, and at the same time a human life was taken.
What is worst?
Here is an abortionist that has murdered countless human beings versus one man who killed the abortionist. What a dilemma?
Let’s make this a bit more diffcult, what if this was the 1940′s and you had a chance to take out Hitler, would you do it?
Is there a difference between what Hitler did and what this Abortionist did? Would you kill either to save countless innocent lives?
These are the questions, now you answer them!
June 1st, 2009 at 11:23 am
Murder is wrong. Abortion is also wrong, as it is murder. They both violate moral law, and the Law of God. Taking a life for revenge will not reclaim the tens, hundreds or thousands of lives that either Hitler or a doctor that performs abortions took. It may make someone “feel good” that this person can no longer perform abortions, but even if you can justify it in your head, it is still wrong. If we do not have that moral law, or the Law of God, we end up like the Israelites in Judges 21:25 “….everyone did as he saw fit”.
I honestly can’t answer the question about taking out Hitler. I think that as a human taking out Hitler may have prevented some deaths. But honestly – to “take someone out” goes against the 6th commandment which prohibits murder. Again MURDER is wrong. Killing a person in defense of another person is not murder. Killing Hitler in defense of myself, or another person whose life was in jeapardy is a different story, and I would not hesitate to act. But killing Hitler because he has killed in the past, and will *probably* kill in the future, to me is murder. You would be taking revenge for his past killings, or trying to predict how your actions would justify his future killings (unknown, but to him and God).
That’s just my 2 cents.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:26 pm
I wouldn’t have done or condoned it, but as all things I believe it serves God’s purpose.
Romans 8:28 (English Standard Version)
28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:05 am
The Ten Commandments teaches ‘thou shalt not kill.’ The Hebrew word we have translated as ‘kill’ is more properly translated ‘take the life of an innocent.’ We call that ‘murder’ and so it is. To the question, ‘would you kill Hitler’ I would answer, that depends. Early in his career? Certainly not. Who could know what he would do with certainty. But after he began his diabolical reign? I would answer yes, as certainly as German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer answered yes and lost his life as a result of his involvement in the attempt. My thinking is that hate and revenge are wrong motives. Protecting life is a correct motive. If it is acceptable for me to take a life in protecting the lives of my family members, or to take the life of an enemy in war to protect my life and the lives of my comrades, how is the taking of the life of one who ‘takes the lives of the innocent’ wrong? Not out of revenge, but out of the attempt to protect innocent life? Let me quickly add that I DO NOT condone the killing of abortion doctors. But that sentiment is more based on the fact that such killing is counter-productive to the cause of life. The Scriptures teach that the ‘sword’ is given to the government. That it is the government that is to utilize that sword to protect life. The Scriptures also teach that government was instituted by God to reward good and punish evil. What are we to do in an age where government rewards evil and punishes good? At that point has government not abdicated it’s God given mandate? What then are we, as believers, to do?