A grieving grandfather told young relatives not to hate the gunman who killed five girls in an Amish schoolhouse massacre, a pastor said on Wednesday.
"As we were standing next to the body of this 13-year-old girl, the grandfather was tutoring the young boys, he was making a point, just saying to the family, 'We must not think evil of this man,' " the Rev. Robert Schenck told CNN.
And as with the English 9/11, the same eunuchs try to hijack it for their own purposes:
A civilization that can't summon up some pretty widespread hatred for a man who lines up little girs and shoots them in their heads, after having been foiled in an attempt to molest them, is a civilization with a spring broken somewhere.
And this gem:
[T]his story disturbs me deeply — because there can be no question that anger can be as righteous as forgiveness. I'm not sure I would want to be someone who succeeded in rising above hatred of those who murder children. Does this mean that those who harbor hatred of child killers have somehow achieved a higher level of Godliness than those who succeed in banishing such hatred from their hearts? [sic] That seems to be a necessary corollary of the idea that it is heroic to "instruct the young not to hate," and that seems very wrong to me.
Podhoretz gets the comparative situations backward in his "Does this mean ..." sentence, but what he means is it is more righteous and godly to hate than to forgive. Of course, he's just a Jew trying to make sense of all this crazy Christian crap out there. Derbyshire has no excuse, other than diminished capacity.
As I said before, Christianists are not Christians at all, they're just gang members who adopt Christian colors and gang signs.
(Thanks to Roy.)
these guys hate the Amish more than the gunner because the Amish are living a moral code they have no chance of ever understanding let alone living.
Posted by: there is no rule 6 | October 05, 2006 at 02:18 PM
Thanks for pointing this out.
I hadn't paid much attention to the horrible situation, mostly because I was aware of the ways in which these situations get distorted by some people. I just wish there were a few Christians out there with louder megaphones than the "Christianists."
Posted by: howard | October 05, 2006 at 03:51 PM
"...there can be no question that anger can be as righteous as forgiveness."
Modestly observant, but Old Testament to the bone apparently.
Posted by: dped | October 06, 2006 at 08:09 PM
... Old Testament to the bone apparently.
Yes, which is what makes it so odd. He's parsing the morals of the Amish as if the New Testament didn't exist.
Posted by: Mithras | October 06, 2006 at 09:45 PM