Sadly, the falling empire is our own, and the Bin Laden execution is no small part of our plunge from greatness. How could citizens of a democracy, who watch court room justice scenes by the hour, and who profess to be Christians, possibly understand a deliberate act by our own government whereby an alleged criminal is assassinated and all physical evidence about that alleged criminal is destroyed, and his body is dumped at sea? How can we in a "Christian" nation comprehend a raid on a leader of another faith, where every man with him, unarmed or lightly armed, is systematically executed in front of their wives and children under direct order to do so from those who pretend to be the world's peacemakers?

After ten days in which to contemplate what we have been told, I observe with sadness that no nationally prominent Celebrity Christian theologian has publicly objected to the raid on moral grounds based on Jesus' words. Sadly, many have justified the summary executions. Their lack of protest is most disturbing aspect of the massacre in Abbottabad. Who, if not America's church leaders, should be outraged at the execution? Are they not the voice from within for morality and justice? Do they not stand on Jesus' works of love, justice, forgiveness, honor and respect for life, including the lives of our enemies? Do our "Christian" leaders fail to believe their own words, that God breathed life into every soul and it is up to Him to take it away? Do they deny their own words, that every man can repent and be redeemed if God wills it, and that it is therefore their job to love and seek to reclaim all men. Yes, they fail to stand for Christian justice, and then they use fragments of scripture, ripped from its context, to justify the acts of the Seal team and those who commanded them.