Our first priority is the salvation of Souls. Our conjoined priority is the restoration of our humanity.
Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and may the Perpetual Light shine upon him. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Amen.
As for Tyler Robinson, repentance and renewal. If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from every wrongdoing (1 Jn 1:9).
Amen.
Very sad. Nobody deserves death for political statements. May he rest in peace. His theology was basicaĺly sound. This is what makes him an enigma.
Enigma of Christian Nationalism
For me: his theology is sound. His poly-religion was terrible and divisive. He exhibited moral theology without the Theo, empathy being the pathos of God. His personal and public personas were in deep contradiction.
For others: he gave voice to the grievances of so many on so many topics. His conclusions were a mixed bag of spot-on and wacky as the wackos he reviled. But most substantially he used moral theology to justify his objectionable poly-religious views. And gives poor intellectual permission for others to do the same.
I wish he had lived and not suffered this fate. He was privately likable and publicly as to true theology, anathema. He had the potential to be great. Rest in peace. Divine aid for his family. And freedom from the frenzy.
It comes as no surprise the twin knee-jerk opposing reactions: 1) martyr of truth, and; 2) ‘serves him right’. Both equally vile, gutteral responses.
Christ’s sword is nothing like the rhetoric. I fear for the young associated and spiritually maimed by Turning Point. The Gospel of compassion is made an empty promise.
Critical thinking, once taught, is abandoned. Freedom FROM and Freedom TO are to be kept in a healthy tension not flopped over as if enough religious violence isn’t enough. Questioning citizenship, scholarship, speech, and morality into a narrow band of thought- unsustainable. The worst is abandoning public ethics as if the high moral standard declared is built on the absence of ethical conduct.
Peace be with you,
Deacon Gerry