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Saturday, September 06, 2003

Lord Voldemort and Winston Churchill
Geitner Suimmons explains the connection, and it makes sense to me.

And Geitner cites at length the best column on executed murderer Paul Hill, murderer of abortionists. It's by Leonard Pitts, who wrote of Hill's claim that God wanted him to kill the abortionists. Hill even said that Jesus would have pulled the trigger Himself. Says Pitts,

I'll tell you something else that strikes me as strange. Every person I've ever known who says God told them to do something has struggled with it, usually because what God wanted was not what they did. ...

You feel that nudge at the rim of consciousness compelling you to take a leap, pushing you toward something you could never have conceived on your own, and it's only natural to feel stirrings of doubt. To say, Hey, God, is that really you? Are you sure about this? 'Cause it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Hill, however, seems to have been a stranger to doubt. The idea of committing the murder first came to him shortly before he actually did it, he told a reporter once, "and as each day passed, I became more certain."

Let me say this: when you even begin to admit the mere possibility that God really, truly, wants you to do something - when you get The Call - you do this:

Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying, "Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before me." But Jonah set out to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid his fare and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.

If you ever think that God is telling you to do something, and you are quite okay about it and think it seems just fine, then I would urge you to think again.

But Hill, Pitts relates, said he was thinking about killing abortionists even before he claimed to hear God telling him to so so. Paul Hill is to Christianity as Indymedia is to traditional American liberalism.

Even so, ain't it curious that the anti-death-penalty crowd seems to have been busy elsewhere as Hill walked his last mile? I guess opposing the death penalty depends on who is getting juiced, and maybe depends on what he did to deserve it, too.

by Donald Sensing, 9/6/2003 08:10:18 PM. Permalink |

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