HUNTSVILLE, AL--Jesus Christ, son of
God and noted pro-life activist, killed
two and critically wounded seven others when
He opened fire in the waiting room
of a Huntsville abortion clinic Tuesday.
Security guards at the Women's Medical
Clinic of Huntsville were able to
disarm the Messiah before He could reload His
weapon, a secondhand Glock 9mm
pistol that authorities said He purchased legally
at a Jackson, MS, sporting-goods
store.
"Abortion is a sin," said Christ as He was
led away in handcuffs. "It is an
abomination in the eyes of Me."
Witnesses said the attack, which took the
lives of Dr. Nelson Woodring, 51, and
clinic nurse Danielle Costa, 29, came from "out
of nowhere."
"He walked up to the admissions desk and asked if He could see
Dr. Woodring," receptionist Iris Reid said. "The
next thing I knew, He was shouting Biblical verses and opening fire
on everything moving."
"It was horrible," said injured clinic nurse Jessica Combs,
recovering at a local hospital with bullet wounds to the
leg and abdomen. "He put his hands over Dr. Woodring's head and
told him He forgave him for his sins, and then He shot
him right in the face."
Huntsville police officials are not certain how the Messiah was
able to bypass clinic guards and proceed undetected
past security cameras and into the clinic waiting room, where He
produced the gun from its hiding place in the folds of
His robe. Federal investigators are similarly baffled, saying that the
heavily armed Christ had moved in "mysterious
ways."
Speaking to reporters from His holding cell, Christ, 33, said He
had "no regrets" about what He had done.
"As I said in John 16:21, every life is precious," Christ said.
"This means
every life, not just those who have already been born. My father, the
Lord, feels the
same way I do. In Jeremiah 1:5, He said unto the prophet Jeremiah,
'Before I
formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you
apart.' The
unborn fetus is a sacred, living creation of my Father in Heaven and
should be
treated as such."
Added Christ: "What if the Virgin Mary had decided to abort
me? Certainly she
must have been tempted to do so. After all, it wasn't even her
decision to conceive
me in the first place. But in the end, she made the right decision,
bringing her
pregnancy to term and giving the world a Savior. Blessed is she
among women."
According to legal experts, if convicted, Christ could face the
death penalty.
"The state of Alabama has the death penalty, and this crime is
certainly the sort that would be construed as a capital
offense," University of Michigan law professor Arthur Lipscomb
said. "With the right judge and jury, Christ could very
well be put to death yet again." In such a case, Lipscomb said,
Alabama would likely use lethal injection rather than
crucifixion.
Christ said He is unafraid of the prospect of execution. "Those
who know me know that I am willing to die for the
sins of others, whether those sins be avarice, slothfulness, false
idolatry or the butchering of unborn life," Christ said.
"The bottom line is, abortion stops a beating heart."
Tuesday's shooting is not Christ's first brush with the law. On
April 8, 29, He was arrested in the Roman province of
Judea for alleged false claims to the throne of the Kingdom of Israel.
On Jan. 11, 1996, He and six other pro-life activists
were jailed for blocking the entrance to a Cheektowaga, NY,
abortion clinic. In October 1997, He was arrested for
plotting to mail anthrax-laced packages to two dozen abortion
doctors across the U.S.
"Abortion is an abomination. It is a sin. It is murder," Christ
said. "I only did what any good Christian would have
done."
Christ's followers have been overwhelmingly supportive of their
leader.
"As it says in Psalm 139:13-16, 'For You created my inmost
being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. My
frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret
place. When I was woven together in the depths of the
earth, your eyes saw my unformed body,'" said Ralph Anson of the
Houston-based Every Life Is Precious. "Those people
at that clinic were killers, and they deserved to die."
"We may not understand everything He does, but we must
believe it is for the best," said Rev. Joseph Abernathy,
minister at First United Baptist Church of Huntsville. "As Christians,
it is not our duty to question what our Savior does.
We can only live according to His example."
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