Two Protestant Views on the Killing of Tiller

My previous posts — Tiller the Killer's Killer and Pottawatomie John Brown / George Tiller, "Martyr" and "Saint" of the Church of Moloch / Paul Gottfried on Tiller's Killer — generated quite a lot of comments, especially the last one, in which I found myself agreeing with the author, a Jew, and his criticism of the "right-to-lifers who are falling all over themselves condemning Tiller’s killer" and his suggestion that "what was done was a profoundly moral but also reckless act." In doing so, however, I suspected that my agreement might have stemmed from the Protestantism in which I was raised.

This post will link to two Protestants, who disagree with Dr. Gottfried. "Did the suspect, Mr. Roeder, act based on this sort of biblical authority?" asks Aaron D. Wolf — Tiller, Roeder, Richert, and Luther. "Could he justly wield the sword against the wretched Mr. Tiller?" he asks. Answering himself, he says, "Not by any reading of Saint Paul or any other Apostle or any Christian tradition." Another Protestant, Patroon, suggests the killing was "a disturbing turn towards behavior that may seem like righteous zeal or justified murder but in reality is heading towards anarchy in the guise of morality" — Abortion and anarchy.