Extremists, Fundamentalists, and Assassins

Posted by Rev. David on June 1, 2009

Within 24 hours of each other, one assassin walked into a church and shot a doctor who provided late-term abortions, while he was handing out orders of worship, and another assassin shot up a military recruiting center, killing a soldier right out of basic training, and wounding another. Both of them felt they were right, [...]

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The Inherent Worth of Terrorists

Posted by Rev. David on January 16, 2008

In 1992 I saw a set of pictures of a village in Peru that had been massacred by members of the Sendero Luminoso, the “Shining Path”. It is hard for me even today to describe the brutality of those images. Hate is not too strong a word for the emotions that swept through me… I [...]

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