Analogy 2: A man comes into your house...

[LadyEagle]

Analogy Two: A man comes into your home. He has a gun he made himself. He points it at your family. He fires, but misses. The gun has little accuracy. He fires repeatedly, missing again and again.
You have a much better gun, made in a real factory. It is in the drawer in the bedroom.

Demonstrators in London and San Francisco - who are distant relatives of the gunman - stage a protest, calling you a murderer and demanding that you keep the well-made gun in the drawer because it would be a disproportionate response.

The man with the homemade gun, it turns out, is a religious fanatic who lives across the street. You were once his landlord. There is much bad blood between you.

He races back across the street. He has a larger weapon that he smuggled in through his basement. He shoots from behind his younger son. He wounds your daughter. You take out a rifle. You aim for him and hit the son, killing the boy.

The demonstrators are now calling you a Nazi and chant "Slaughter the Landlord!"

[In his defense, the neighbor explains that you have kept him and his family locked in the house, and have at times, failed to pay his water, gas and electric bills, causing them to be turned off.

This is some years after the neighbor send out his older son, nicely dressed, to knock on your door. Your older daughter opens the door. He greet her politely, and presses the detonator on a homemade bomb.]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052866.html

 

[KenH]

I would hope that as Christians that we would mourn the loss of innocent civilians on both sides of this conflict. :tear:

 

[Revmitchell]

Be concerned for the loss of life on both sides. But both positions are not equal. The Palestinians both civilian and terrorists have put themselves in the position where their deaths are justified but sad. They are making their own bed.

 

[hillclimber1]

We as believers, hold life as sacred, so we do mourn it's loss.. But these radical Islamist's do not, and in fact celebrate death. So, I say, indulge them in that, to prevent innocent losses. If they employ innocents, so be it... And until we understand this, they have an enormous advantage.

 

[ktn4eg]

Even Jesus Himself.....The One by whom the entire creation owes its existence....once said that, "it had been good for that man if he had not been born." (Matthew 26:24)

I'm just wondering if He would possibly say the same for some of these Allah-appointed militant, suicidal & genocidal terrorists?

BTW, if all of their brother Arab nations really love them as much as they boldly proclaim to, why then don't they welcome them with open arms (the things that extend from a person's shoulders, not the weapons they've been supplying them with for more than a half century by now) to permanently live, side-by-side, in their own nations along with their brother Arabs?

I'd think that certainly that'd be something about which they'd all boldly proclaim...."Allah Wills It!!!" .............Wouldn't it?

Oh, that's right......that's already been tried, hasn't it?