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To Kill Isn't Always Sinful!
Killing is recognized in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition not only as being justifiable but also possibly necessary or virtuous in the following cases: (1) To defend one's own life. (2) To defend the life of an innocent person. (3) For a legitimate government in the execution of certain criminals. (4) In a just war. THE PRESENT "PRESSING" APPLICATION
THIS comment "got me thinking." Does the STATE define when killing is MURDER or does GOD define when killing is MURDER? Of course, ONLY God defines what types of killings are murder. In fact present government laws on licit or illicit killings RESEMBLE HITLER'S PARALLEL LAWS. Present legislation CONFLICTS with God's will. We can now "experience" WHY most Germans didn't protest Hitler's murders of Jews, militant Catholics and other innocent people. After all, such murders were pronounced by the state to be justifiable, clean and good KILLINGS. They were LEGAL! The present American government resembles NAZI GERMANY in this regard. Certain types of human killings are so good as to be subsidized or promoted by Federal money. They are legal, protected by law and even sponsored by the government. WHO protests? Hardly anyone. As in NAZI Germany (as Cardinal Ratzinger observed about his country), the greatest scandal is the INACTIVITY or lack of effective action by BISHOPS. Most of "our" Bishops are total failures in the social realm, especially, in effectively protecting most innocent and most vulnerable human lives from being MURDERED. Their guilt and shame is far worse than that of many of the bishops of NAZI Germany (since these German bishops were living under a total dictatorship; would lose their lives by WITNESSING to the relevant truth; and, WEREN'T addressing the murders of the totally innocent and most defenseless). Is Killing An Abortionist Not Murder
Some Americans may contend that they would praise such a hero; BUT, would they praise a similar hero? Would they praise a man who killed a "SS type of" ABORTIONIST-DOCTOR? What defense or even justification does such a killer have? Clearly, HE WOULD BE PROTECTING THE LIVES OF THE INNOCENT. Is such a killer justified in resorting to such drastic means? Of course not, IF the state is reasonable and open to desisting from murdering innocent human beings. However, as the state becomes hardened and "hopelessly irreformable," do not the restraining conditions for using drastic means to protect the lives of the innocent lessen, even disappear and perhaps even become so negated as to become "positive obligations?" Indeed, Mary's Remnant have something to PRAYERFULLY THINK ABOUT! Each of us will have to face Jesus as He asks us: "WHAT DID YOU DO TO PREVENT THE STATE-APPROVED MURDERS OF MY MOST INNOCENT AND MOST VULNERABLE BROTHERS AND SISTERS?" (p. 5) The Remnant – May 31, 1993 AD
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