Friday, August 17, 2012
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Back in he early 2000s soon after 9/11 many of us clergy and laity were pretty focused and energized about the killing of the fetus, or human person, as we would call the fetus. We were pretty public about it. When the government decided to go to war with Iraq, some of us criticized the decision, but in a more tepid and less energized focus. Why was that? We get up in arms about the killing of a fetus by medical procedures, but not so up in arms about killing with guns, of an Iraqi. There may be several reasons why a person would have an abortion. There is only one reason we killed Iraqis. It was over oil. Don't you think that when God says, "Thou shalt not kill," God has in mind the Iraqis too?
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I believe in the sanctity of human life from conception through natural death. Any taking of a human life feels wrong to me, because as you wrote, God gave us the Commandment "Thou Shall Not Kill". Abortion is wrong, but so are many other forms of taking a human life.
ReplyDeleteI also do not understand the limited response to the legality of assault weapons. What positive good can come from assault weapons with 100-round magazines in the hands of citizens? I wouldn't imagine God is pleased with that either!
The Vatican condemned the war in Iraq and made its opinion known to President Bush at the time. My European friends have said that media coverage was plentiful there of the pope speaking out against the war, while in the U.S. it was practically non-existent.
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