wfz said:
Lazthelost said:
osamanobama said:
Lazthelost said:
My personal thoughts on this whole matter?
Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. -Ezekiel 33:11
Some background info: I'm a Caucasian male, 22 years old, Christian, living in South Carolina, and I'm a Progressive.
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i do agree with you, about the Bible verse, but i cant help my self. but im more happy in the justice part, and not the death part.
but as for the bolded. i bufudles me, it doesnt seem like those three things add up. it does not compute. lol 
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Well think about. Jesus Christ was the biggest social advocate of any person I've ever heard of. As a Progressive I feel such compassion towards mankind. Black, White, Asian, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Man, Women, Transgender, I don't care. I believe that everyone deserves a chance at having a fulfilling life and who am I to stop them?
Jesus didn't walk this Earth saying "Love one another, except those gay people, oh and minorities, oh and of course not Muslims or liberals. Gun rights save lives and anti-everything laws will help protect your children from the scary change of the future." Now I'm just being a little silly in that last sentence, but I hope you can see where I'm going with this. Jesus taught to love one another, unconditionally. My political views are completely based on how Jesus Christ lived his life, and that is why I consider myself a Progressive. Bias, intolerance, hatred, disgust, etc were hard things to overcome personally at certain points in my life, but I feel free now. I feel happy, and I only want to help people.
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It's fun being an idealist, but you need to also know when to live in reality. I wish the world was as perfect as you hope it were, but the truth is it's not. There is nothing you could do to "save" him from his ways.
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I do live in reality, and I'm sorry that my ideals led you to believe that I didn't. I'm actively involved in interactions with my hometown politicians, my state representatives, and local Churches. If everyone writes off a potential belief, how could it ever come true? I guess I'm just not jaded enough to just give up on people. Anyway...
If, and I mean IF it was possible to capture Osama Bin Laden then imagine what the US Government could have learned? By this I don't mean through torture, but through interviews, interrogations, and what not. He was an extremely twisted man, raised up on an extremist idealogy that lead to his awful crimes. I don't believe in the idea that we could have "saved" him, but things could have gone down very different years and years ago. I'm not sure on what we could have done to change what happened, or to stop him, but all of that is in the past now.
I just don't think it's right to dance, and cheer over a man's death. I find it pretty morbid. But all of these things are tangents and I'm sorry for straying off topic. Anyway, back to studying for my Exams.
Carry on my good Sir.
