The following is taken from Pastor Rick Warren's Q&A with the presidential candidates live on CNN. Warren has now asked both candidates what, if anything, should be done about the problem "evil" in the world.
Pastor Warren's question:
Does evil exist, and if so, should we ignore it, negotiate with it, contain it, or defeat it?
McCain's answer:
Defeat it. (applause) Couple points. One. If I'm president of the United States, my friends, if I have to follow him to the Gates of Hell, I will get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. I will do that. No one should be allowed to take thousands of innocent American lives.
McCain's answer continued. He spoke about the importance of supporting General Petreus in winning the Iraq war.
When asked the same question, Obama replied:
Evil does exist. I think we see evil all the time. We see evil in Darfur. We see evil -- sadly -- on the streets of our cities. We see evil in parents who viciously abuse their children. And I think it has to be confronted. It has to be confronted squarely. And one of the things that I strongly believe is that we are not going to -- as individuals -- be able to erase evil from the world. That is God's task. But we can be soldiers in that process. And we can confront it when we see it.
Now, the one thing that I think is very important is for us to have some humility in how we approach the issue of confronting evil. Because a lot of evil has been perpetrated based on the claim that we were trying to confront evil. (Warren: "in the name of good.") In the name of good. And I think one thing that's very important is having some humility in recognizing that just because we think our intentions are good doesn't mean we are going to be doing good.
2 comments:
So McCain's main goal in life is to catch Osama bin Laden? He wants to be president for that sole purpose?
Very interesting...hard to think about what our country will look like if the man in charge decides to devote everything we have to that goal...
Sadly this wasn't given it's due air time. I think this is a pretty clear cut example in the difference we have in our candidates. We have a show boater trying to rally the people that Bush successfully rallied in his re-election and an intelligent leader looking to make change in our country. I have a feeling the disillusioned have awakened and see through McCains plan and he looks as stupid to them as he does to me.
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