Who Says There's Nothing Wrong With Inflammatory Rhetoric?: On Praying that Obama Will be Assassinated
Thats's what Wiley Drake prays for, that President Obama will be assassinated. He's a former leader of the Southern Baptist Convention. This kind of rhetoric must be stopped! Drake's comments are analogous to the inflammatory rhetoric about abortionists like George Tiller who was murdered recently. Is this not a way to call upon the faithful to do what must be done, not unlike how Muslim leaders call for the death of others? It sure sounds that way to me.
Listen up. Abortion does not equal murder. Murder is a legal term. We kill people all of the time. The Bible calls for the killing of people and even genocide where it's even hoped that babies are even dashed upon the rocks, and that means the parents are already dead so the soldiers have the freedom to go around doing this. What one country considers to be murder varies from country to country and era to era. There are also degrees of murder, from 1st-2nd-3rd degree, to vehicular homicide, to manslaughter. When it comes to these crimes there are mitigating circumstances calling for vastly different punishments from the death penalty to 5 years of probation.
The “Eye For An Eye” "lex talionis" Passages (Leviticus 24:18-20; Exodus 21:22-25) cannot apply to abortion since the related incident is about an accidental injury and not an intentional abortion. The law does not require the death penalty for an accidental death (Ex. 21:13-14, 20-21; Numb. 35:10-34; Deut. 19:1-13). The concern expressed is for the husband’s loss of property, both his wife and his child to be. If anti-abortionists want to use this text then let them also embrace the property status of the woman to her husband. Let them also embrace a barbaric “eye for an eye” justice. Such texts comes from a superstitious and barbaric people requiring us to ignore them.
After all, upon reading through Judges 19-21, what ethical right do these people have to tell us how to live our lives? Read it. Even if it's merely telling us what happened without providing an ethical judgment (and why not?), what legitimate right does a barbaric people like that have in writing down ethical principles for us to live by? NONE. We must decide for ourselves. So did Tiller. He did not forfeit his life because he operated under the law and helped people.
Listen up. Abortion does not equal murder. Murder is a legal term. We kill people all of the time. The Bible calls for the killing of people and even genocide where it's even hoped that babies are even dashed upon the rocks, and that means the parents are already dead so the soldiers have the freedom to go around doing this. What one country considers to be murder varies from country to country and era to era. There are also degrees of murder, from 1st-2nd-3rd degree, to vehicular homicide, to manslaughter. When it comes to these crimes there are mitigating circumstances calling for vastly different punishments from the death penalty to 5 years of probation.
The “Eye For An Eye” "lex talionis" Passages (Leviticus 24:18-20; Exodus 21:22-25) cannot apply to abortion since the related incident is about an accidental injury and not an intentional abortion. The law does not require the death penalty for an accidental death (Ex. 21:13-14, 20-21; Numb. 35:10-34; Deut. 19:1-13). The concern expressed is for the husband’s loss of property, both his wife and his child to be. If anti-abortionists want to use this text then let them also embrace the property status of the woman to her husband. Let them also embrace a barbaric “eye for an eye” justice. Such texts comes from a superstitious and barbaric people requiring us to ignore them.
After all, upon reading through Judges 19-21, what ethical right do these people have to tell us how to live our lives? Read it. Even if it's merely telling us what happened without providing an ethical judgment (and why not?), what legitimate right does a barbaric people like that have in writing down ethical principles for us to live by? NONE. We must decide for ourselves. So did Tiller. He did not forfeit his life because he operated under the law and helped people.