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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; revenge</title>
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		<title>killing bin laden</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2011/05/04/killing-bin-laden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 17:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Osama bin Laden did evil things. Yes, he despoiled the image of God that was put in him as well as in each of us. But if we allow his choices to change our choices, to make us people ready to kill &#8212; for the sake of &#8220;closure,&#8221; for the sake of &#8220;justice,&#8221; for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>justice stevens disavows the death penalty</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/04/17/justice-stevens-disavows-the-death-penalty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an opinion released on Wednesday, United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote: I have relied on my own experience in reaching the conclusion that the imposition of the death penalty represents &#8220;the pointless and needless extinction of life with only marginal contributions to any discernible social or public purposes. A penalty with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a prayer for good friday</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/06/a-prayer-for-good-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lord Jesus, forgive us for all the ways we deny you &#8230; &#8230; by remaining quiet in the shadows, not daring to speak our faith in the public arena &#8230; by quietly going about our own business, while neglecting to wonder what your business might be &#8230; by being more American than Christian, more the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a sick and perverted spectacle</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/12/13/a-sick-and-perverted-spectacle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sick and perverted spectacle &#8230; Those are the words Stanley Tookie Williams used to characterize his impending execution. Williams was executed early this morning, after appeals for a stay of execution were denied by the California Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court, and after a plea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what would jesus do, mr. robertson?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/08/24/what-would-jesus-do-mr-robertson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/08/24/what-would-jesus-do-mr-robertson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What was it Jesus said? &#8220;Assassinate your enemies?&#8221; Read Matthew 5:43-45!]]></description>
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		<title>a moral imperative for victims?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/08/18/a-moral-imperative-for-victims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/08/18/a-moral-imperative-for-victims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When hateful people produce lasting hatred in us &#8230; hate wins. When violent people make us violent &#8230; violence wins. When cruel people leave us with nothing but a burning desire for revenge in our minds and hearts &#8230; cruelty wins. When evil done to us gives birth to evil done by us &#8230; evil [...]]]></description>
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