Our faith is often nurtured by our family and the leaders of our church from a time when we are very young. Faith is first placed in myths, like Santa Claus, the Easter Rabbit and Tooth Fairy. As we grow in our understanding of religion our faith is supposed to transferred to God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth and in his Only Begotten Son Jesus! We're not told that GOD created hell too and despite Commandments like Thou Shall Not Kill! Ol' God spends a lot of time smiting people, cities, and whole populations. Today we'd call it genocide but in the Old Testament its called God's Will.
I'm really not down with this. I never was down with this even as a young Lutheran. Now we have this story. I imagine a 51 year old guy, spends his whole life wanting to be a dad but he's anti-social, he plays with guns, he's indignant that someone might take away his right to protect himself. He's also indignant that while he can't attract a woman to bear him children, there's a doctor in Wichita performing abortions! He's going save those pre-born lives in self defense he walks into a church, the so called House of God, and using his government given right to bear munitions, shoots to death a man married for 45 years, father of four, grandfather of ten.
This is how Pro-Life looks. This is Scott Roeder's, the presumed killer, idea of justice.
I heard a woman speaking at a memorial service for Dr. Tiller. She said,
"I had been abused, mistreated, and violated. Dr. Tiller helped me. Thank God for that."
I understand her feeling, but I have to say,
"No! Thank science for Dr. Tiller. Thank God for Scott Roeder, the killer, and for many others like him who think they are called to impose their faith on other people."
I say,
"Thank God for the crazed, faith addled killers everywhere who fight in the name of the Lord."
The gift of faith, our society's fall from grace if we do not also use our critical thinking faculties.
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