Comments on: Murder Conviction in Tiller Shooting

By: Maxim

Maxim — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:28:55 +0000

Bonhoeffer is widely portrayed as a martyr for wanting to save Jews by plotting to kill Hitler, but by this reasoning he only got what he deserved when he was executed for treason.

By: Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:58:47 +0000

Ian: Christians once did live in a society that condoned infanticide by exposure, and even permitted the “man of the house” to kill his wife. It was the Roman Empire. Christians did not respond by violently attacking people engaged in those atrocities, but by taking the rejected children into their own homes, caring for the poor, etc. It changed the world.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:50:27 +0000

My head agrees with Wesley but part of me asks: “What if?” What if it were lawful to kill your newborn (as Peter Singer would allow) or to kill your elderly or severely disabled relatives (which is becoming legal in parts of the world)? Must Christians simply shout objections from the sidelines and not intervene? Evil is smuggled in with hard cases and good intentions and very soon those whom Lord Denning called “right-thinking people” resign themselves to doing nothing much about it.

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By: Darcy

Darcy — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:55:39 +0000

I agree that the conviction is right, but the idea that nothing could be more dangerous than a vigilante to a free society, or more contrary to principles of love and service, surely cannot be literally true. There is nothing special about evils committed by a vigilante–they are not necessarily either more or less contrary to good or damaging to social order than any other evils.

By: William L Harnist

William L Harnist — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:49:47 +0000

Violence begets violence.

By: Robert A. Dufresane

Robert A. Dufresane — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:20:35 +0000

Yes , nothing is more dangerous in our society than a vigilante who takes life into his own hands. Especially one who takes many lives into his own hands. There is justice and there is legality which in the case of abortion, is not just, of course. There is no wonder confusion reigns in this perverted society. A “pro life” person kills which of course makes him not pro life, but “pro choice” and he gets convicted of murder. An obviously “pro choice” doctor kills over and over again and is honored as “doctor” and exonerated as a martyr when someone who is pro choice does the same to him. Quite confusing is it not? No I don’t condone it; but one can see why a person could be confused by the injustice of it all.

By: Klaire

Klaire — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:20:05 +0000

Very well said Wesley; nothing to add.