there is no god doing anything, it’s insane men driven by ancient mythological nonsense, killing innocent people. I’m quite frankly sick of religious people pawing culpability for these atrocities off on their invisible friend (I’m not saying all the religious do this, in fact I think – or at least hope – you fall in a small minority).
I’m not saying life doesn’t suck for many people in this world, and perhaps unnecessarily so. Nevertheless I can only touch and speak for those near me, and in my little tiny corner of this planet, a Major who was put through medical school by the Army, given every benefit by this country and my Army, who turned around and betrayed us in the manner he did, has well earned the ultimate punishment.
His just desert is death by firing squad or hanging … period!
I imagine dying on a cross is far less painful than being burned at the stake?
I think we’d better get this straight. I don’t agree with what this bloke did - full stop. To be honest, I’m surprised he wasn’t discharged earlier, given what the Army seemed to know about him. If he’s executed or given a life sentence, I won’t be losing any sleep over it.
Nor does “religion” justify killing others. On the other hand, believing there’s no God doesn’t justify killing hundreds of thousands of unborn children, and that’s a direct result of creeping atheism. And you seem to have forgotten your hardline atheist cousins in the Soviet Union, Red China et al killed millions - in fact they put more people to death in less than a century that all the religious wars combined throughout human history. And one reason was that they were convinced there was no ultimate punishment.
I would imagine that being burned at the stake was a hideous death. Although I don’t see much difference in being burnt on a cross, or being burnt alive by napalm, which doesn’t discriminate between combatant and civilian who happens to be in the vicinity. But an execution by burning was probably over in half an hour or less. Crucifixions sometimes took days. Pilate was “surprised” that Christ only lasted six hours. And most of them were for non-religious reasons.
The ultimate problem is human nature. My father for example fought in the Second World War, at Milne Bay in New Guinea (that I know about, and I’ve seen photographic evidence of him at Milne Bay in an official publication), and his father in the First World War (and was gassed for his trouble). But my father also treated his own family like a cruel, vindictive, bad-tempered, little tyrant. He may have been heroic as a young man in a military context, but that didn’t make him a saint. Nor did religion have much to do with it. If anything he had no real belief in God. In fact he told me he didn’t. I think if he had, and practised that belief, he’d have been a better man.
And I still think God’s getting tired of being ignored. I notice someone else expects God to bless America. Personally I think that if the American nation keeps killing 250,000 of its own unborn children every year, I suspect God will keep involving the nation, or allowing the nation to be involved (and my own for that matter) in events that make it more and more difficult to be “blessed”. In the last twenty years for example, you’ve been drawn into 2 Gulf Wars, a Bosnian War, experiences 9/11, the Afghan War, and are currently trying to prevent Pakistani and North Korean implosion or conflagration.
On a prorata basis my own nation isn’t much better, and it would be quite easy for God to make it difficult for us. And I think He will. We’re also getting drawn into the same conflicts.
That doesn’t excuse a Jihadist hitman in Fort Hood. But his actions are symptomatic of a much wider crisis which appears to be overcoming the world.
