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I anticipate the zombie apocalypse. Thriller was definitely foreshadowing to his eventual demise.

Is Michael Jackson dead...?

Well that was a bit unexpected. ...Half of the world's jokes are now much less funny.

It's confusing me that there are two threads about this topic.

Yet a part of me feels no remorse.

And that is the most disturbing part of both threads on this topic. Somehow Christians are giddy that Michael Jackson may now be in hell. I was at VBS last night and many people cheered when MJ's death was announced.

Way to go Christians.

Quote from: TheHobbit13 on June 26, 2009, 12:25:46 PM

Yet a part of me feels no remorse.

And that is the most disturbing part of both threads on this topic. Somehow Christians are giddy that Michael Jackson may now be in hell. I was at VBS last night and many people cheered when MJ's death was announced.

Way to go Christians.

That's excessive. People need to learn to seperate the ideas of the person and the person himself. They don't like his ideas and influence, so they decide to hate him. So unchristian.

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Quote from: TheHobbit13 on June 26, 2009, 12:25:46 PM

Yet a part of me feels no remorse.

And that is the most disturbing part of both threads on this topic. Somehow Christians are giddy that Michael Jackson may now be in hell. I was at VBS last night and many people cheered when MJ's death was announced.

Way to go Christians.

How many little "I agree" smileys can we collect?

i have been seeing this EVerywhere even facebook....

Quote from: TheHobbit13 on June 26, 2009, 12:25:46 PM

It is a sad  thing that Michael Jackson died and even more sad if he didn't find Jesus.  Yet a part of me feels no remorse.

And that is the most disturbing part of both threads on this topic. Somehow Christians are giddy that Michael Jackson may now be in hell. I was at VBS last night and many people cheered when MJ's death was announced.

Way to go Christians.

Hmm.  I hope you don't lump TheHobbit in with those who are "giddy."  He was being honest, and I don't feel like his comment was "disturbing."  We should ALL feel sad, as he said he did.  We should all feel even MORE sad if we think he might not have been saved, just as The Hobbit said.  And, there is a God-given sense of justice in that "part of me" that feels no remorse in his passing.  Of course there is remorse in most of me.  I really, really hope he was saved.  The fruit I saw on his lifetree does not convince me he was saved, but I'm not going to be the judge of his soul.  If he was not saved, I am VERY sad that he was not saved, and that his chances for salvation are gone.  God didn't want him to be lost when he died.  

But there is a part of me (a small part) that feels no remorse when people reap what they sow.  Even as a kid, there was a part of me that was glad to be punished by my parents for doing wrong.  It is a good part of us, though often misguided and influenced by our own pride, that feels content in God's justice.  Didn't Moses and Miriam rejoice when the horse and rider were thrown into the sea?  That was not wrong or disturbing.  Clearly our response as Christians is different now that we are more focused on individual eternal salvation, rather than the temporal salvation of God's people, but still, you do not need to quench ALL of your feelings of justice when someone who has done harm to people and society is removed from this plane.  In fact, if he WAS saved, heaven is clearly a better place for him, possibly for all involved.

Anyway, The Hobbit never even expressed a sliver of happiness, let alone being "giddy" or dancing, so I hope you don't lump him in with those people at your VBS.

Hobbit stated that "a part of him felt no remorse" not that he was completely without remorse.

Well stated Bryon.