Sunday reflection [Amish killings]

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Rod Dreher (via Lucianne) pauses to reflect on the Amish school massacre and the salvation found in everyday faith:
In our time, religion makes the front pages usually in the ghastliest ways. In the name of God, the faithful fly planes into buildings, blow themselves up to murder the innocent, burn down rival houses of worship, insult and condemn and cry out to heaven for vengeance. The wicked Rev. Fred Phelps and his crazy brood of fundamentalist vipers even planned to protest at the Amish children’s funeral, until Dallas-based radio talker Mike Gallagher, bless him, gave them an hour of his program if they would only let those poor people bury their dead in peace. But sometimes, faith helps ordinary men and women do the humanly impossible: to forgive, to love, to heal and to redeem. It makes no sense. It is the most sensible thing in the world. The Amish have turned this occasion of spectacular evil into a bright witness to hope. Despite everything, a light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.
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Rod Dreher (via Lucianne) pauses to reflect on the Amish school massacre and the salvation found in everyday faith:In our time, religion makes the front pages usually in the ghastliest ways. In the name of God, the faithful fly planes into buildings, blow themselves up to murder the innocent, burn down rival houses of worship, insult and condemn and cry out to heaven for vengeance. The wicked Rev. Fred Phelps and his crazy brood of fundamentalist vipers even planned to protest at the Amish children’s funeral, until Dallas-based radio talker Mike Gallagher, bless him, gave them an hour of his program if they would only let those poor people bury their dead in peace. But sometimes, faith helps ordinary men and women do the humanly impossible: to forgive, to love, to heal and to redeem. It makes no sense. It is the most sensible thing in the world. The Amish have turned this occasion of spectacular evil into a bright witness to hope. Despite everything, a light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.
michellemalkin.com/archives/006074.htm
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The impecibly Christian way the Amish have reacted to these killings has made me really think about my own faith. Why is it that one community is able to forgive, go to the killer’s funeral, and start a fund for the killer’s family, when the rest of us who call ourselves Christians go about our daily lives with nothing close to that level of living our Faith?
 
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The impecibly Christian way the Amish have reacted to these killings has made me really think about my own faith. Why is it that one community is able to forgive, go to the killer’s funeral, and start a fund for the killer’s family, when the rest of us who call ourselves Christians go about our daily lives with nothing close to that level of living our Faith?
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Indeed it is a means to catalyze us into thinking more deeply into our own faiths. Don’t feel depressed that we don’t have such examples of true Christians selflessness. Recall a few weeks ago when we found out the nun who was murdered in response to BXIV’s remarks spent her last breaths forgiving her assassins. Also recall St. Kolby’s giving of his own life to the nazis that a young jJewish family man might live instead. There are plenty of such fine examples in our own faith community as well.

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