This entry is by no means an affirmative statement of any kind. It is rather an intellectual challenge, posing a question which is not expected to be answered.
St. Augustine, who deemed suicide so evil that he chastised hapless Lucretia for having killed herself after being raped, made an exception for Samson, whose ‘suicide’ was not a sin, but a glorious death, eminently justified by the destruction of so many enemies of Israel, whom he had no other means of defeating, except by destroying himself in the first place.
What a stinging historical irony! The Jew Samson, suicide-murderer of unsuspecting Philistine civilians... My parallel with our modern times must already have occurred to the reader, the parallel in reverse. These days, it is the Palestinian suicide bomber, the Philistine, who destroys unsuspecting Jewish civilians, using the very same rationale which Samson had used, and St. Augustine had so gloriously exonerated… Would the great Saint have condoned it in this case too?…
St. Augustine, who deemed suicide so evil that he chastised hapless Lucretia for having killed herself after being raped, made an exception for Samson, whose ‘suicide’ was not a sin, but a glorious death, eminently justified by the destruction of so many enemies of Israel, whom he had no other means of defeating, except by destroying himself in the first place.
What a stinging historical irony! The Jew Samson, suicide-murderer of unsuspecting Philistine civilians... My parallel with our modern times must already have occurred to the reader, the parallel in reverse. These days, it is the Palestinian suicide bomber, the Philistine, who destroys unsuspecting Jewish civilians, using the very same rationale which Samson had used, and St. Augustine had so gloriously exonerated… Would the great Saint have condoned it in this case too?…
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