Sunday, April 30, 2006
Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) took the occasion of the suicide bombing in Tel Aviv that took place on the 17th (as I said, I'm catching up, here) to condemn violence on both sides: Clerk issues statement on suicide bombing - Kirkpatrick: Attack is ‘a grim reminder of the violence that undermines peace’ (It's not a reminder, BTW, it is the violence that undermines peace.)
Although Kirkpatrick's statement does at least notice Hamas's despicable (my word of course) welcoming of the event, he cannot help but decry "violence on both sides" (as though the violence of the criminal and the cop are the same) and conclude this way:
An emailer points out the psalm reading for the day after the bombing was Psalm 94:
Lift up Thyself, Thou Judge of the earth; render to the proud their recompense.
the Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?
They gush out, they speak arrogancy; all the workers of iniquity bear themselves loftily.
They crush Thy people, O the Lord, and afflict Thy heritage.
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
And they say: 'The the Lord will not see, neither will the God of Jacob give heed.'...
...Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had soon dwelt in silence...
...They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood...
"(as though the violence of the criminal and the cop are the same)"
In the warped minds of the leftists steering the ship at the PCUSA, I would tend to believe they would call the violence of the criminal equivalent to the violence of the cop.
If they were consistent in their liberation theology argument about always favoring the unempowered, they'd find the violence of the cop worse.