when i was young (in the 1980's) i was watching tv with my mom and on the news they were talking about a bombing at a abortion clinic. I was too young to understand in any capacity, why someone would do that, and when i asked my mom why, she subtly infered that "sometimes people have to do certain things to make god's will done."
My mom was no means a wacko super hypocrite off the wall variety christian.
I think that the true reason why she would say such a thing back then and would never admit to saying that now is because of the liberalizing effect culture (and the media) have had on the minds of lay christians who never realized how such notions are no different than how jihad-variety muslims think.
lay christians don't think like that no more for one main reason: secularists have coerced them not to.
agree?
2007-06-27 13:27:11 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
sorry i had a typo:
in the middle i meant to say
".....my mom was by no means a wacko...."
2007-06-27 13:29:33 · update #1
No. And frankly I doubt your story.
Jesus said to love our enemies and bless those who persecute us. Jesus never ONCE asked or told his followers to commit violence. Jesus asks us to DIE for him not to KILL for him. That is a big difference between Jesus and Mohammed. Jesus healed the sick, spread his message through miracles, and died on a cross, whereas Mohammed spent half his life as a conquering war hero, spread his message through violence and coercion, and died of a sickeness and a headache in 632 two years after conquering Mecca with ten thousand men and converting the city to Islam.
The difference in their lives is reflected in their religion, the difference in their religions is what affects their followers today...
2007-06-27 13:41:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lay Christians DO think like that, a lot of them do. They just don't SAY it except around their own kind. Well, most of them don't.
I wouldn't say it was the liberal media or culture that has had an effect on stopping their being so "out", I'd say it was just common human sense found among most of the people in the country that has helped to shut them up.
I'd say that one group of people has no right to impart their idea of religious judgement on anyone else.
Also, another reason is because taking the life of doctors, nurses, and women (and whoever friends or family may have been accompanying those women) is ILLEGAL, and that's not liberal or conservative, it's just the law.
They don't want to go to jail for planning terrorism, so they aren't usually very vocal about their plans.
Those who bomb abortion clinics and kill innocent people - INCLUDING any fetuses that might be inside the mothers inside in the waiting room or not yet aborted, the very fetuses that they are supposedly trying to PREVENT being killed, are really no better than the jihadists who are murdering all over the world bringing their own religious judgements against everyone else.
Terrorists suck.
2007-06-27 20:41:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"lay christians don't think like that no more for one main reason: secularists have coerced them not to.
agree?"
Only to the extent that unlearned Christians in the past were not as influenced by today's political correctness as they are now.
But Christians who know what the Bible teaches would never justify the sin of blowing up someones property by claiming that it was God's will. God is not the author of sin but He does use it to cause his will to come to pass. He used the Babylonians to judge Israel and He can use misguided people to judge clinics that kill innocent children. He just doesn't ordain that people should do it.
2007-06-27 20:35:04 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why do secularists have anything to do with it? Bombing people is wrong. Killing people is wrong. You may feel the Aborition is wrong, but it is legal in our coutry, and we don't live rule of "an eye for an eye".
We live in a society where there is such a thing as justice not vengence.
2007-06-27 20:33:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus didn't go around attacking abuses by Romans, trying to abolish slavery, or even attack paganism. He offered love to people. The only people or institutions he attacked was the religious leaders of the time.
Don't let Satan distract you with issues. Abortion is wrong, but God still loves the abortion doctor, and the girl who just got her baby aborted. Don't shove "their evil ways" down their throats. Show love, and that God still freely offers his forgiveness.
2007-06-27 20:47:08 · answer #5 · answered by Ognyen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who bomb abortion clinics are the worst hypocrites. They are bombing so that lives can be saved. Be pro-life all you want, but don't take lives in the process, that's just hypocritical.
If there is a God, I seriously doubt He would want you to kill His children to spread his message of love and peace.
2007-06-27 20:31:57 · answer #6 · answered by Kate 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
nope. You never do something like that. The ends do not justify the means ever---suppose someone was in there? You just can't take that chance and killing someone involved in abortions is just as bad as killing babies. You are not being pro life when you kill anybody
2007-06-27 20:35:08 · answer #7 · answered by Midge 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Committing a murder to stop a murder is nonsense. Trying use the examples in the bible is even worse. The bible talks about facts and methods used way too long ago and it will be completely stupid to use those methods today when we know better.
2007-06-27 20:36:14 · answer #8 · answered by Millie 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
People have been claiming to do gods will for thousands of years. It was hypocritically arrogant then, just as it is now.
2007-06-27 20:34:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
well the people who blew up the abortion clinics ended up agnostics not Christians. though the media played it up to be Christians.
2007-06-27 20:44:54 · answer #10 · answered by rap1361 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋