Hatred is often called “blind.” Perhaps this is because when we are aroused in our passions (or “sinfulness”), we are unable to discern between “good and evil.” Rather than seeing only the light of God, we are overcome with darkness and left to fumble around like a blind person. Our soul is laid aside for the sake of our flesh.

Before I say anything further, I’m going to assume a few things:

Let’s assume for the moment that a man named “Osama Bin Laden” exists, that he is who our media tells us he is (or was), and that he was “responsible for” the incidents of September 11, 2001, wherein two airplanes were crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York City (and supposedly another was forced to the ground in Pennsylvania and yet another striking the Pentagon in Washington, DC), resulting in the death of around 3,000 people (mostly US citizens). Let’s also assume that this man died recently due to a strategic attack led by US special forces in the sovereign nation of Pakistan.

For those who have done any amount of honest, unbiased research into these events, I realize this is assuming a LOT, but I won’t get into all of those issues right now.

That said, we are presented with a situation here in the US where people are going to react. For those who have relatives, etc. that lost their lives on September 11, 2001 or during the subsequent, countless military operations throughout the middle east, there is certainly presented an opportunity to react with strong emotion and to a depth few of us can understand or empathize with.

So then, what is the proper reaction? I’m asking this, you understand, as a Christian – not with some indefinable, modern “morality” that is determined by convention or the whims of cultural relativism (nor by the State or the tenets of our long-forgotten Constitution, etc.).

As a Christian, how are we to react to the death of another person?

For many, this question is answered with a question: “Which person?”

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