Boston Bombing

Boston Bombing

The Boston marathon bombing awakened us all Americans. Three people were killed, among whom was an eight year old kid who was watching innocently to encourage his father running in the hoping to run himself someday also, and more than 300 other people critically injured and wounded. Two pressure cooker bombs installed with sophisticated triggering devices exploded in the middle of the spectators, while the marathon was in progress. Two suspects were hunted down and resulted in one killed and the other captured alive but gun-shot wounded. The whole Boston city was paralyzed by the acts of these two men. The citizens were trembling in fear inside their home forced to follow the order of the authority.

After the capture, terrorized citizens came out sheepishly to streets still suspecting their freedom regained, waved the Stars and the Stripes, and sang the Star Spangled Banner. Soon afterward, the suspect in the hospital bed read Miranda right even before being asked any information that might be useful for the national security. What is the real story of the Boston terrorism? We have no way of knowing it, unless the media report to us honestly. Terrorists were in our backyard. We feel that America is not safer than before. America is in the dark.

How would God see all this? Apparently motivated by conflicting interests are two opposite views on this incident in the Government, in the two parties, in the nation, and in the world. The varying interests will change in time and place. But it is the moment of the truth to show whether the leaders work for themselves or American people.

God tells us to love one another. We should love our enemy. So is said. But what about justice? God is just. Justice should be done on the terrorist. God confuses us, but the Government confuses us even more by keeping us in darkness. Is justice incompatible with love? The notions of love and justice are not clear anymore, because they are all perverted. Sexual love and fair share for example had made our heads spin in dizziness. We became foolish. Then, let me reiterate the same question: Is perfect justice incompatible with perfect love? The answer is resoundingly, ‘No, they are compatible,’ because perfect justice is perfect love – they converge to each other. God is the justice and the love everlasting.

The injured victims now have to suffer every moment in the hospital for no good reason, when the opposite camps are in vain pointing fingers at each other in false effort to vindicate themselves. ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ Cain once said. We are all descendants of Cain. We cannot hide our faces with our bloody fingers before God. Let us bury the hatchet of political and ideological interests to reestablish our trust in God in this land. Let the love and justice prevail. (April 26, 2013, KYP)