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Re: "do not rejoice when your enemies fall" - kj - 05-09-2011
Grace62 wrote:
and then there's
"When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, And when the wicked perish, there is joyful shouting." (Proverbs 11:10)
I don't disagree with that author's couple of paragraphs on the topic of OBL's death, but there is so much more to this, in terms of morality, justice, revenge, and forgiveness. Americans, and in fact people all over the world, experienced a wide, deep range of emotions from simple relief to outright joy to contempt and anger. I won't judge which is right to feel. It is the end of one chapter, and the beginning of another. It will be interesting to see how the lessons of May 1 reverberate, or don't.
In giving it a bit of thought, I realized a person can simultaneously have both reactions. A sense of joy that no one will again suffer at his hand, and sense of remorse that Osama had the capacity for good, and did not realize that potential. I think it's important to have the second because it puts you in a frame of mind to help people toward realizing the potential they have toward good. kj.