The passing of George Tiller

I find it hard to mourn the tragic death of George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas, USA. Not only because I didn't know the man personally, but also because of the nature of his profession.

George Tiller, a doctor, was reportedly the proprietor and chief executive of an abortion clinic, of which there are countless throughout the USA. But this abortion provider (NY Times usage) didn't specialise in doing away with the miniscule featuses developing inside his clients. Mr. Tiller was one of the marginally few who ran a successful business on 'surgically removing' babies during the second trimester of their existence within their mother's wombs. In other words, the tiny humans that died in Dr. Tiller's clinic, were already five months old or more.

NO LICENSE TO KILL

George Tiller, 67, died at the hands of a mentally disturbed person. Several pro-life organizations in the country have already issued statements in which they flatly condemn this vicious act. Because vicious it is, regardless of Mr. Tiller's own blatant contempt for the unborn little ones, whose demise he oversaw personally. There is no excuse, there is no warrant, for the taking of a human life. Serial killers and saints are equally created in the image of God, and no single act on their part justifies their being murdered like this. Paradoxically, though, Dr. Tiller reaped what he had been sowing: death.

Which is highly ironical in its own twisted way, given the fact that this 'abortion provider' was a deacon in his church, and that he was gunned down while handing out Sunday service programs - or something of the kind - in the church foyer. Mr. Tiller, the committed Christian?!

EVERYBODY'S A CHRISTIAN?

There's no law banning you or me from appropriating names or titles to suit our own personal tastes or convictions. And postmodernism holds that anyone can label themselves Christian, because it's their right to define their own personal, religious allegiance or dogmas. According to this kind of thinking, you may or may not believe in the physical death and resurrection of Jesus. But still you're a Christian if Christian you want to be.

Crap. Nonsense. Baloney. It's true that you may subscribe to strange ideas or practices and still be a born-again believer, but if you lead a life where you routinely and cynically take innocent lives, and profit financially to boot by doing it, then your bloody hands will, in the eyes of heaven, forever testify against your hollow and empty confession of piety.

What a wasted life. What a terrible way to end it. If only he had regretted his actions, he would have received forgiveness. Because no matter the character of each individual sin we've ever committed, we all deserve George Tiller's fate. We all deserve death. So there's no need to gloat over what happened in Wichita, Kansas. But there's reason to celebrate the truth that forgiveness is to be had for those who're truly sorry for the wrongs they've done.