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While I have expressed my own frustrations at the cross of Evangelicalism, patriotism, and capitalism, Bill Maher goes a little far at a couple of points. First, there is a command to love your enemy, and pray for those who persecute you - the logic he presents assumes that you can't love someone even while recognizing the need for them to die. Can Jesus love Satan in the moment he condemns him to the lake of fire (as recorded in Revelation)? Can Jesus love the son of perdition while proclaiming that he has been handed over for torment? Justice and love are not incompatible.

When he brings up the assassination of Bin Laden - he did deserve death, but so do we all. We are all sinners, and the wages of sin is death. Justice may even have required that he be killed by Americans (he claimed the mass murder of American citizens as one of his greatest accomplishments). It may have been appropriate for him to be assassinated; whether or not I like it, that's the whole story of Scripture. What does not sit with scripture is the celebration of his death. The glory in his destruction should be abhorrent as should be the political use of it.