The Telegraph provides a provocative report about the aftermath of the racially motivated murder of Anthony Walker, an 18-year-old black youth in Britain's capital. Here's the lead paragraph and an excerpt (with British punctuation intact):
The mother of Anthony Walker drew on her Christian faith yesterday to find forgiveness for the two thugs who murdered him with a mountaineering axe because he was black.
Outside the court, Mrs Walker, with her daughter Dominique, who had gone to school with Taylor [one of the defendants], said: "Do I forgive them? At the point of death Jesus said 'I forgive them because they don't know what they did'.
"I've got to forgive them. I still forgive them. My family and I still stand by what we believe: forgiveness."
On the island that exported the song, "Shine, Jesus, Shine," the Lord shines indeed.
But the darkness of sin is present as well, obviously. Britain, no less than the United States, and no less than any other nation of sinners, has a "race" problem. We use the quotation marks because before the concept of race existed, the problem of animosity toward nations, tribes, cultures and such was nevertheless rampant. When there was just one family in the world, with two brothers, the farmer brother killed the shepherd brother.
We also note with scorn that experiences like the Walkers' exposes the theological lie that the "tribulation" is something that lies only in the future. Having your own or your son's or your brother's head split open with an ax is tribulation enough, thank you very much.
May God comfort, bless and keep the Walker family and all close to them! And he will, too!
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