I fully agree.
Titoy
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From: John Pendley <jpendley@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Heard on the radio
> At 08:55 PM 09/16/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >Today on the radio I heard a very well spoken man, appeared to be well
> >educated and intelligent. He urged massive bombing of Mecca followed
> >by random metropolitan targets in Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Sudan,
> >Algeria, and Iraq. He followed with quoting Col. Kurtz:
> >
> >"Horror. Horror has a face...And you must make a friend of horror. Horror
> >and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies
> >to be feared. They are truly enemies."
> >
> >Is this what we're coming to?
> >
> > -Nick T.
>
> I wonder if the many requests for prayer last week were a reaction to the
> horror we suffered or if prayer has always been in the hearts of so many
> list members. I think we must pray, for our own preservation, that such a
> thing as this "educated and intelligent" person advocates never
> happens. Even lesser crimes could ruin us; even our motives can ruin
> us. We have every right to defend ourselves and to seek justice, but if
we
> go after the perpetrators with hate as our motive, we are no better than
> they, and we are risk losing our moral compass. I mean this as an offense
> to no one, but as a plea to our praying members.
> John
>
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