Posted by Jina Mulligan --Previous Message--
on August 11, 2003, 9:46 am, in reply to "Capital Punishment and the Bali Trial"
Thanks for the forum.
I am saddened by the negative outbursts re Amrozi's death sentence.
Yes, it was a terrible terrible act but can taking another life heal anything?
The fear of terrorism seems to be taking over everything.
How can we turn this feeling into something positive?
I think we should be talking about peace somewhere in all of this.
Thanks,
Jina.
: What a sad moment for the people damaged by the
: Bali bombing as they watched yesterday that
: bizarre little man, Amrozi, smile his way
: into death row.
: It's worth musing on the various responses to
: the death penalty - some celebrated with
: champagne and wished him to hell, others
: wished for him to be spared and used as a
: source of information; others again are
: lodging an appeal against the death penalty
: on the basis that it will heal nothing.
: I wonder what I would feel like if one of my
: nieces or nephews had been killed in Bali -
: it's too easy to judge all these different
: responses.
: A significant moment on the radio this
: morning when a women who had lost a child in
: the bombing, remarked that she thought that
: the death penalty would appease her and heal
: her spirit a bit. Instead, all she flet was
: empty.
: I wonder where our sense of God is relevant
: in all this - there's a perspective we need
: in moments of great pain and anguish - maybe
: a deeper sense of God is a good place to
: start!
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