revenge

If you treat Tsarnaev's body with dignity, you're letting the dead terrorists win

May 07, 2013 by Steve Thorngate

A funeral director in Massachusetts is struggling to find a community willing to let Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev be buried there. It's sobering to belong to an ostensibly advanced, decent culture in which people find it reasonable to take revenge on a corpse.

And what is this about if not revenge?

"And Jesus had killed them all."

Feb 22, 2013 by Steve Thorngate

I'll join the chorus maintaining that this SNL sketch is aimed at Quentin Tarantino, not Jesus, and/or at bizarre distortions of Christianity, not Christianity itself.

Features

Bridging the abyss of revenge

Forgiveness in politics

Dec 01, 1999 by Donald W. Shriver Jr.

"For almost 50 years, South Korean villagers have insisted that early in the Korean War, American soldiers machine-gunned hundreds of helpless civilians under a railroad bridge near a hamlet some 100 miles southeast of Seoul," read a front-page article in the New York Times.

Impressions

Revenge or justice?

Revenge won't work in Afghanistan

Nov 21, 2001 by James M. Wall

It was much easier to oppose the gulf war. The situation that evoked the U.S. military response ten years ago was not personal, unless you count the loss of a plentiful oil supply as personal. Certainly Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait didn’t carry anything like the emotional impact of the September 11 attack that killed 5,000 citizens.

Impressions

Eyes to see, ears to hear

Not a time for vengeance

Sep 26, 2001 by James M. Wall

In the final days of Jesus’ ministry, “so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trod upon one another” in their desire to hear him.