this morning i attended a beautiful Pentecost mass. even though we are two hours behind where the killing took place, i had not heard the news before attending the mass. after returning home several hours later i finally got on the internet and saw the news about the doctor being murdered while at his church. my first reaction was shock.
wichita was known for the notorious BTK serial killer who was President of his Lutheran church. now George Tiller is killed inside his Reformed Lutheran Church. my question is, how could both of these men compartamentalize the killing they were doing, whether it was unborn babies or vulnerable women, and at the same time be active church members?
to be honest, i really feel nothing about the murder of the doctor. to me, he was an evil man, although he thought he was doing a good service for women. saddam hussein was an evil man, although on some level i am sure he justified the murder of iraqi people during his reign. the same could be said for Hitler. maybe it is hard to recognize evil in oneself.
however, i would think you would have to be deceiving yourself everyday that you woke up about the acts you had committed.
so far, i have seen little media coverage of this. probably, tomorrow, when more is known about the man they believe killed Dr. George Tiller, i will have more to say.
i don’t know what this will do to the pro-life movement, but if the homeland security is already watchful, it probably won’t help.
someone mentioned that the doctor did not have a chance to repent. i would hope he was repenting every time he went to church. somewhere in the back of his mind, he had to have had the thought that this might happen someday.
anyhow, it was beautiful this morning to feel the unity of the people in the Mass and hear the Bishop speak of the Nicene Creed that we profess. i think i will focus the rest of the day on the message given in the homily by the Bishop rather than this act of murder that occurred this morning in Wichita, Kansas.
