A couple of days ago, my local newspaper, the Northwest Arkansas Times posted this letter concerning Dr. George Tiller's murder in Wichita.
The once young man who wrote this letter... well, read the letter first and then I will tell you more below the fold
A word about Judgment Day
With the advent of abortionist George Tiller's death in Kansas on May 31, some pontificate about what happens to a person after they die, while the news media tells us this was an "unspoken tragedy" because it happened at church. But it doesn't seem to bother them when Christians get shot in church.
Anyway, Hindus might say that Tiller will be reincarnated as a donkey or a skunk, and Buddhists that he reached Nirvana, while evolutionists will conclude that church doesn't matter since they say "we all just die like dogs and there is no Creator God."
With the religions of this world being no help on such subjects, as usual we can turn to God's Word, the Bible, for answers. But first, let's assume for a moment that the media is right and that God loves abortionists who rip babies out of women and throw them in the trash with the rest of the medical waste from today's gynecological windfall. If so, then George Tiller can say with Apostle Paul, "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord."
Now, if I were stupid enough to believe the media, then I would buy a long saline injection needle, some forceps and a powerful vacuum hose so I could open up an abortion clinic in Fayetteville and get filthy rich. I might even buy off the tax man if he brought his daughter to the clinic after the prom. But the Bible says that "It is appointed unto men, once to die and then the judgment." That includes all of us, both believers and nonbelievers in Jesus Christ.
After death, the question is, which judgment? "The judgment seat of Jesus Christ for believers," or "The Great White Throne Judgment" spoken of in Revelation for all others? Now, let's assume traditional wisdom for a moment and conclude that God did not say to George Tiller, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter unto My rest." Then the Bible says that "the rest of the dead lived not again until the end of the thousand years and they were judged out of the book and cast into the lake of fire." Somehow, I just can't picture God thanking George Tiller for getting rich from killing thousands of babies and promoting feminism in the name of women's health while sending pro-lifers to prison.
I really think George will be at the second judgment, not the first one. Oh, and don't forget the crooked judges, lawyers and feminists that supported George. They'll be there too.
Jay W. Cole Jr. / Fayetteville
I believe Jay Jr is perfectly capable of becoming another Scott Roeder. I have given his name and his father's name to the FBI and the US Marshals who are coming to our office every morning, and I think I will also remind our local Fayetteville PD of his activities over the years.
This is my letter in answer to Jay Jr. I think it will run sometime this week, maybe on Sunday:
Letter to the Northwest Arkansas Times
In the 6/10/09 edition of the Northwest Arkansas Times (NWATimes), Jay Cole, Jr has a letter to the editor about the murder of Dr. George Tiller. He criticizes the media for paying great attention to this shooting of Dr. Tiller, and says, "But it doesn’t seem to bother them when Christians get shot in church."
Ummh, Jay Jr... Dr. Tiller WAS a Christian.
Or maybe Lutherans are like, as Jay writes, "the religions of this world (that are) no help on such subjects." Such subjects being who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. As Jay Jr says, "as usual we turn to God’s word, the Bible, for answers." And after turning to his ever present Bible, Jay Jr knows exactly who is going to heaven, and whom to hell. What a comfort that must be!
I first met Jay Jr when his father, Jay Sr. was one of the organizers of the demonstrations at my office from Jan. 1985 to July of 1989. Sometime in the fall of 1985, Jay Jr., who appeared to me to be a crazy-as-a-loon teenager, asked if he could speak to me. I invited him into my office after work and gave him about an hour of conversation.
His family had recently arrived in Fayetteville and his father immediately began a series of silly TV ads, ending each one with, "I’m Jay Cole", as if that would make a great impression on the viewer. He, like his son today, began to write letters to the editor, which in those days, appeared almost weekly or perhaps a little more often, in this newspaper.
As I wanted to know more about his father, I asked Jay Jr where the family had come from and what his father did. Jay Jr told me that his father had been in "Christian Aviation" in South America before bringing his family to Fayetteville, where he was "now in Christian Electronics."
I suppose under Jay’s criteria, I could say that my friend, Dr. George Tiller was in Christian Abortion. But not I, since I am a Spider Grandmotherist. Or maybe Jay Jr doesn’t consider Dr. Tiller's Reformation Lutheran Church to be Christian. Maybe I should say I am in "Spider Grandmother abortion."
I never discovered exactly what branch of the Christian tree Jay Jr and his daddy fell from, though I do know that Jay Sr once had and perhaps still does, have his own church, with services in the airplane hanger he built on his property. Perhaps his religion was/is not "of this world." His father's services were attended, when services were held, by Jay Jr and Jay Jr’s mother, a couple of neighbors, and sometimes by a few of the non-preacher demonstrators from in front of my office.
I always considered Jay Sr to be a fraud and conman on the order of the likes of Pat Robinson, Jerry Falwell and Jimmy Swagert. But I am pretty sure Jay Jr is a true believer. And I am more than a little concerned that he might be a true believer of the variety that Osama bin Laden and Scott Roeter are, that the "good Catholic boy" John Salvi and the former Presbyterian minister, Paul Hill, and poor crazies like James Kopp and Michael Griffin were and are.
And this makes me a little nervous. I don’t think I will invite Jay Jr into my office again.
I heard Dr. Warren Hern say once at a National Abortion Federation meeting, "I expect to be killed."
I don't expect to be killed, but I have always been more than a little surprised that someone never actually took a shot at me after I wrote my book, There Is A Bomb In Gilead. Two of the characters in the book are loosely based on Jay and his father, as other characters are loosely based on some of the other preachers and zealots who used to show up at my clinic for those 4 and 1/2 years in the 1980s. I sent a copy to all of them. But maybe they didn't realized it was a roman-a-clef, or however one spells that. Or maybe they had never heard of such a thing.
After all, they never were the brightest bulbs on our Christmas tree.
There is a P.S. to these two letters. On Thursday 6/11/09, a second letter appeared in the NWA Times written by a fellow named Michael Collins, ironically labeled... "We should seek common ground."
The first sentence is: "A lot has been made lately about this latest extreme late-term, postnatal abortion done by an unlicensed practitioner." The right wing crazies love to use the term, "postnatal abortion" when referring to the murder of an abortion provider or one of the staff. This morning I made sure that the Fayetteville PD, the local FBI and the US Marshalls were informed of crazy Mike's letter, in which he refers to a couple of passages from one of my essays, Why I Provide Abortion. (This I published as my first DKos diary.) And suggests that I might be the next "postnatal abortion."
One of these agencies is going to give Crazy Mike "a shout out" as soon as they find him at home. I am always proactive with these nutcases. Like the idiot, GWB, I believe in a preemptive strike in the war being wagged on us by right wing terrorists.
And I will reply to his letter as soon as the newspaper allows me to. Life as a physician who provides abortion services is never dull. Must be kind of like doing humanitarian work in a Taliban controlled region of Afganistan.