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Are you contending that it's very Christian to shoot at a fleeing thief?
I don't think I would, and I'm an atheist. I can only imagine being Christian would make me even more forgivy.
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Shooting a fleeing thief is not a Christian thing to do. Being a Christian should indeed make one "even more forgivy" (I like that--forgivy
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Furthermore, being a Christian (should) mean that we place more value on human life than on material property, however valuable or useful that property might be. After all, what is a thief but a person created in God's image, separated from his God by sin? In other words, is not the thief a sinner--just like me? While I might not steal copper, the Bible doesn't separate sins into categories according to magnitude. Either one sins or one does not sin, and all have sinned.
Finally, as a Christian, I would say that teaching the thief about Christ would be the Christian thing to do. If we as Christians are to concern ourselves with teaching the gospel to the world, we would do well to remember that you can't teach dead sinners.