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The Dalai Lama seems to suggest the United States was justified in killing Osama bin Laden.
Speaking Tuesday to about 3,000 students at the University of Southern California, the 75-year-old Tibetan leader says bin Laden, as a human being, may have deserved compassion and even forgiveness.
But the Los Angeles Times says the Dalai Lama added: “Forgiveness doesn’t mean forget what happened.”
via Dalai Lama Implies That Bin Laden Killing Is Justified At USC.
I do think that there is a difference between ‘justified’ and then being exuberant over the death. What it justified to use any and all measure against someone who has ordered the death of thousands, led an insurrection against the image of God, escaped capture time and time again, and has threatened more harm and destruction?
And if so, should we be celebrating in the streets?
Joel Landon Watts is a Masters of Theological Studies student with a focus in Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific ideals of the past century. Currently, he is a TA for Old Testament at United Theological Seminary under Dr. Vivian Johnson, Associate Professor of Old Testament. His first book, Rhetorical Strategies of the Evangelist: Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark, is expected to be published by Wipf and Stock early next year. He is currently co-editing a book on moving from Fear to Faith (Energion, 2013).
That guy really needs to change his name. It’s too much like Llama for me to take him seriously