I hate Communism. It makes my blood curdle and my fists clench. I often think communist leaders deserve the most heinous deaths possible. Preparing to enter a country which is still dealing with consequences of communist rule, the men behind the idea have been on my mind.

What is the proper response to them, when their ideology is so flawed?

I love mercy (when I’m the one receiving it). I even enjoy it when I can see the people who drank too much, cheated on their significant other, or lived behind bars receive it. Mercy can end there though. I don’t truly enjoy seeing leaders in charge of millions deaths given it. Nor people like Casey Anthony freed. I’m not alone on this one either, I’ve read enough opinion pieces on evil people to know not many would offer them mercy.                          

As we speak, Cambodia’s old communist regime leaders are being put on trial. Brother Number Two is one of those. Millions were murdered under his orders to create an agrarian society. Most are calling for his death or life-time sentence... this simply seems to be the only right answer.

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My blood has boiled along with the rest of those who have heard about and seen the destruction Brother Number two helped generate.  Senselessly destroying families, displacing communities, and harming the very poor they were supposed to protect.

Yet, I still wonder.

What would happen if instead of justice, Brother Number Two received Christ-like Mercy. Would he see Christ, if we poured His mercy out? Is it  worth the risk of never giving him the consequences he deserves for the evil committed?  

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It is crazy, irrational, insane.

But then, so is God caring for people who defy, ignore, mock, and murder his only Son.

Thoughts?