Osama Bin Laden: dead

[KnottedYet]

Anything with this much meaning, symbolism and potential concequence deserves to be ruminated on instead of taken at face value.

I believe everything I am told, unquestioningly and at face value. Anything less would be unpatriotic! I'm a good American. Double-plus good!

(extra credit for those of you who took English 101, or just bought the Eurythmics album... even if only for the great pictures of Annie Lennox in fatigues)

Seriously, though, let's take a moment to think about this event and all its repercussions.

(one of my immediate thoughts was for my ex-brother-in-law, who is a Navy seal and is the first line guy who rappels from the helicopter)

Our animal instinct is to hoot and holler and celebrate like chimps after killing a monkey. Once we have that vented or controlled, it is our responsibility as adult humans to ponder the event and pray.

What would Jesus do?

Would He dance in the streets? Would He shout "In your FACE" and drop His pants to moon a photograph?

Or would He realize this was a painful thing, the Right to Life was taken from one of God's children, and we should solemnly shoulder the collective responsibility for what we have done, regardless?