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A Christian response to evil
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Aug 29, 2005 09:16am |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Media | Newspaper - Memphis Commercial Appeal |
| News Date | Monday, August 29, 2005 03:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Some of your Aug. 26 letter writers question the Christianity of those who support the war effort in Iraq. However, what kind of Christian would turn a blind eye to the wholesale slaughter of hundreds of thousands during the Saddam Hussein regime? What type of Christian looks the other way when fellow humans are gassed by the thousands and when women are raped in front of their families, when children are shot in the back of their heads and dumped in shallow graves, and when dissidents are dipped into vats of nitric acid?
Under Saddam, the people of Iraq were like the beaten victim in the parable of the Good Samaritan, and like the first two travelers who passed them by, the world did not aid their plight.
For more than eight years, the United Nations sent resolution after resolution to Saddam, demanding that he stop his atrocities, only to be scorned and ignored. The situation boiled down to two options -- removing Saddam by force or allowing him to remain and continue his atrocities. If President Bush had not acted, one has to wonder whom Saddam would dip in nitric acid today. |
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