tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409139071628002101.post8790920236612547722..comments2023-09-11T07:34:37.635-07:00Comments on Shared thoughts: The worst and the best.Andrew Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14685970347404504083noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409139071628002101.post-37286280592081150572008-07-19T02:57:00.000-07:002008-07-19T02:57:00.000-07:00You understood the point perfectly!As you say, the...You understood the point perfectly!<BR/>As you say, the pure cruelty of some things can enrage a person utterly. But it's a good point that you raise. If I, in anger, do to someone what I see them doing to a victim, am I actually any better? I can tell myself that I'm defending the victim, but it's a thing I've been over in my mind about a great deal. Where is the line between righteous anger and the appropriate response, and becoming exactly what I react to? In fact, that's part of the perniciousness of Satan, that the demon can use my own response to drag me down to the same level as the thing I hate to see. But the report you mention, the nine year old girl raped...it's hard to blame someone if they went to the defence of that child and left the rapist incapable of ever doing such things again. Then I have to remember Jesus' reaction when Peter, angry at the attack on Jesus, cut off the ear of the high priest's servant. Jesus promptly healed it; but even after so much time with Jesus, Peter could react with rage to the evil actions of those who arrested Him. It's a battle. I'm glad of your comment, by the way. Visit and comment any time. Blessings.Andrew Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14685970347404504083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409139071628002101.post-67192717103538841772008-07-15T22:27:00.000-07:002008-07-15T22:27:00.000-07:00I don't know if this is truly on point, but your r...I don't know if this is truly on point, but your reaction to Uncle Tom resonates in this manner: child abuse. I cannot abide it in anyway. The thought of it enrages me to no end. Today, there was a report of a nine year old girl raped and murdered and left in an alley in Chicago. The other day, Bill O'Reilley (a pundit on FoxNews Channel) showed a clip of a teen putting an infant on some kind of cushion, and then he bounced on the other end causing the baby to fly off and land who knows where. Just reading in the newspaper any story of a child being killed by any type of abuse violent episode can bring me to tears. I can't stand it. There was a story recently of a guy who pulled over and pulled a small child out of his car and began beating the crap out him. The kid was like a toddler as I recall. Such stories make me wish I could be present when these things take place so I can exact the proper punishment personally. I would go berserk. <BR/><BR/>These are signs of what, true evil or insanity? How can we tell precisely? Should we even bother trying? And of course, what can my Lord be thinking of me when I entertain thoughts of violence upon these pathetic examples of humanity? Does He see it as righteous anger, or just hatred? Truth to tell, I can't say that the idea of hatred ever crossed my mind until now. Only brutalizing those that would dare brutalize a child.<BR/><BR/>Forgive my rambling rant. I've read this post several times and each resulted in some version of what I have put down here. Sorry if I missed your point.Marshal Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01054268632726520871noreply@blogger.com