That was a post I saw last night after the death of Osama bin Laden.
My first thought after reading it was, "well, God was already good. bin Laden doesn't have any control over that."
My second thought was that translated into Arabic, that would read "Allah Akbar," the same phrase that the 9/11 hijackers said as their planes were crashing into the world trade towers. (It's not only a Muslim phrase, by the way. Arab speaking Chrisitans call God Allah also.)
The world is probably a safer place today than it was 24 hours ago, but I don't think it is a better place. Bin Laden deserved to die, but as long as we equate death with success we will still fall short of God's hopes for humanity.
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I think it is wrong four our country to "rejoice" in the death of our enemy - this should be a very sad day for us because it proves that "we" are no better than "they" - and that we believe killing is the solution rather than asking the question "what would Jesus have done?" How would he have handled the conflict?
The answer to the question is clear in the Torah, Gospels, Acts & Paul's letters - When we kill, we fail to love as we have been loved; and we fail to forgive as we have been forgiven.
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