“Christians” Who Torture, Part II

I was busy retching or I would have endeavored to find out more about the author who claims to be a Christian yet justifies torture in the article I referenced yesterday. Fortunately, Andreatta G. was on the ball even if I wasn’t and discovered that this repulsive hypocrite is a subcontractor for the Department of Defense. Ergo, aside from her innate and idolatrous statism, the writer also has a vested interest in defending utter evil.

Several years after Abu Ghraib’s horrific photographs shocked the world, I happened to attend a lecture at a free-market think-tank. I will never forget my disgust when about half the audience booed the speaker’s denunciation of torture. One woman in particular, an elderly schoolteacher who has long haunted the movement for liberty, insisted that “terrorists” deserve such abuse — and she was not alone, by any means. How nauseating that supposedly civilized people could actually discuss and endorse such perversion over their wine and cheese. I mean, to discuss it is bad enough, but to eagerly disclose that you approve? What have we become? And if this is what prevails at a place supposedly devoted to liberty, what of the wide world outside its walls?

I saw the same nausea in the emails so many of you sent me when you learned that a supposed Christian is defending the Feds’ unspeakable atrocities. And if this is what prevails in the Church, what can we expect from the wide world outside?

Nonetheless, true Christians respond to the State’s victims with help and healing as we pray for our Father to deliver us from evil — and to abolish Leviathan, the source of so much of that evil. Indeed, let us take a lesson from a jury that not only exonerated a man cops beat for no reason but hugged him (thanks to Bill Martin for sending me this link).

And let us never forget that the State is Satan’s citadel. Of course it tortures. Of course it steals. Of course it murders. And of course it euphemizes and lies about all these sins. Christians repudiate such perversion. They live by the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. They do not advocate the utilitarian saving of thousands of live by savaging one; they realize that every life, even those of Moslems, even those across the seas, even those in countries that resent the USSA’s bullying, are precious in God’s eyes. They do not condone deliberate injury of defenseless scapegoats. They do not blaspheme God’s Word by taking it out of context and perverting its message of repentance into one of governmental vengeance. If they do, they aren’t Christians. “By their fruits, ye shall know them.”

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10:20 am on December 18, 2014