gbaji wrote:
If you believe based on your own religion that it is murder to commit an abortion, but you live in a country in which the laws don't reflect that, you are placed in a dilemma. I can certainly understand how and why someone might be willing to become a murderer under the law which doesn't reflect his beliefs to stop a mass murderer under the law which does.
gbaji wrote:
No one seriously interprets that to mean that people should never take any action to prevent people from doing bad things here on earth, or work to make laws which punish people who hurt others, or fight in wars, or pretty much a whole ton of stuff which falls into the "not waiting for the guy to die so that god can do his thing" category.
But you aren't stopping a mass murderer; you're stopping a mass killer, exactly according the the definition you established earlier.
Most people have chosen to interpret the Bible as not supporting vigilantism. If the laws of your country are unjust, then as a Christian you should correct that injustice in a just and godly way, which in this case was clearly not the method.
Shadow wasn't suggesting inaction, but murdering sinners is not in accordance with the scripture as most people have chosen to interpret it.
gbaji wrote:
If your suggestion was even remotely followed then why do any Christians support any laws at all? If we are really just supposed to ignore acts other people take and let God deal with it later, we shouldn't have any right?
Because most Christians I know assert that God works through man. Christians supporting laws
is God dealing with it.
Edited, Jan 30th 2010 12:58am by Allegory