Prayers for Saddam Hussein

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kellie said:
I just posted a question in the AAA section about this subject, before seeing this thread.

I felt sickened when they announced that he was to hang, and today in our newspaper there is a big headline saying “People volunteering to do the execution.”

No matter what he did in power, no matter what any criminal does, I abhor the death penalty, it sickens me that people in this world want to kill others.

May the Lord have mercy on his soul.

And may the Lord have mercy on all those involved directly and indirectly in the execution.
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I’d rather pray for the souls of the one that wanted and sought and ordered the revange death on Saddam, as well as for the souls that will personally murder S. H. The devil strikes again, because someone WILL pick up where Saddam left off and toss Iraq into further chaos and a lot of people will end up in hell for rejoicing and cheering at Saddam’s deadh!! REPENT!! THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!!!
 
Curiouse said:
Oh boy, I just looked at a Buddhist forum and all of them refuse to pray or say some mantras for Saddam, not that it would do any good, but it’s the thought that counts.
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Well, just because they’re Buddhist doesn’t mean that God won’t hear their prayers. Or at least some of them.
 
Curiouse said:
Oh boy, I just looked at a Buddhist forum and all of them refuse to pray or say some mantras for Saddam, not that it would do any good, but it’s the thought that counts.
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doesn’t God hear all our prayers, even non Catholics?

anyways, i’m also praying for Saddam. I just wish they wouldn’t hang him. 😦
 
The reason that executing Saddam is wrong according to official Church teaching (which by the way is vastly different from the past in this matter for those who think that Catholic moral teaching never changes) is that execution is inherently inhumane, a position shared “coincidentally” by international organizations such as Human Rights Watch and arguably upholdable by the US Constitution, though the United States remains the only country in the civilized democratic world that still carries out the death penalty. If Saddam were being held in Canadian custody, they would not turn him over, for capital punishment is forbidden under Canadian law.

Does anyone here think that Saddam is anything but a piece of excrement that defiled humanity? I doubt it. The point is not that we are maintaining a life worth living. The point is that we brutalize ourselves when we take another life under official sanction and outside of in extremis circumstances.
 
Completely aside from all the stuff about whether capital punishment is right or wrong, I think it is right to pray for the salvation of Saddam’s soul. Also for his victims, living and dead.
 
jbuck919 said:
The reason that executing Saddam is wrong according to official Church teaching (which by the way is vastly different from the past in this matter for those who think that Catholic moral teaching never changes) is that execution is inherently inhumane, a position shared “coincidentally” by international organizations such as Human Rights Watch and arguably upholdable by the US Constitution, though the United States remains the only country in the civilized democratic world that still carries out the death penalty. If Saddam were being held in Canadian custody, they would not turn him over, for capital punishment is forbidden under Canadian law.

Does anyone here think that Saddam is anything but a piece of excrement that defiled humanity? I doubt it. The point is not that we are maintaining a life worth living. The point is that we brutalize ourselves when we take another life under official sanction and outside of in extremis circumstances.
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Well said!!
 
Curiouse said:
Oh boy, I just looked at a Buddhist forum and all of them refuse to pray or say some mantras for Saddam, not that it would do any good, but it’s the thought that counts.
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A buddhist forum? Can you post the link?
 
I will pray for Saddam Hussein as well. Dying in that fashion is horribly frightening. Its my hope that maybe an angel will hold his hand.

I also pray for his executioners and all those involved, those that watch for the sake of revenge, and those that hate him. We are to love our enemies and hate only their sins.
 
Another prayer for him going up!

Lord may you show yourself and give true faith to Saddam Hussein. May he recognize Jesus Christ as the Son of God, who suffered, died, was buried, and rose again for the forgiveness of our sins. Please Lord, break his heart of stone so that he make seek humbly your forgiveness and be granted eternal life with you and all the saints. Have mercy on all of us Lord. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord, in whom all our intercessions are acceptable; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Kevin42 said:
Another prayer for him going up!

Lord may you show yourself and give true faith to Saddam Hussein. May he recognize Jesus Christ as the Son of God, who suffered, died, was buried, and rose again for the forgiveness of our sins. Please Lord, break his heart of stone so that he make seek humbly your forgiveness and be granted eternal life with you and all the saints. Have mercy on all of us Lord. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord, in whom all our intercessions are acceptable; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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That also goes that want S. H. dead, including those that will hang the S-man.
 
The only reason I am not objecting to his execution, is because I think keeping him around would pose a serious risk to many, many innocent people. I wonder why you object? The Church is not strictly against capital punishment. Although it certainly doesn’t welcome it, it is recognized as acceptable in some circumstances.

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Or am I mistaking it that you are simply against the people who want his death as a sort of revenge, and you are not against the execution itself? Sorry if I misunderstood.
 
We should all pray that even if in the last moments, he falls to his knees in sorrow and repentance for the genocide at his own hands. We should pray that God would make Himself known to S.H. and that all the sins of his life would be laid before him so that he may beg the Lord’s forgiveness for each and every act of murderous fury.

While we are praying for S.H. we should also pray for all of the fatherless children, all of the mothers who lost their sons to biological weapons, and all of the fathers who lost their daughters at the hands of the raping, torturing, vermin that H.S. calls his sons. Not to mention we should pray for the hundred of thousands of souls who died at the hands of this EVIL man who has turned his back on the Lord.

There is evil in the world, there is heaven and there is hell, not everyone is going to Heaven. I don’t know who is and who is not. And I believe that every sin no matter how terrible and every sinner no matter how evil can be forgiven by God, but first they must repent. That is what we should be praying for S.H.
 
Is Saddam being executed by the US? I thought ‘we’ only used hanging for those who commit treason? I can think of many who could be accused of treason against the US, but not a foreign leader, regardless of how horrible his crimes.
If I’m wrong here please forgive me. I don’t watch television and rarely check the news online.
The only radio I listen to is EWTN.
And I listen to Waylon a lot. 🙂
 
I will pray for Saddam, no one is unworthy of our prayers.

Heck, I may even pray George Bush when his hour comes.
 
I will pray for Saddam, no one is unworthy of our prayers.

Heck, I may even pray for George Bush when his hour comes.
 
Why don’t we pray for Hitler while we’re at it. And I hope you know I am joking. It just seems like a waste to pray for people that deserve to go where they are probably going. Nonetheless, it seems like a nice thought. Idealy it would be nice if Hell is completely empty.
 
wjp984 said:
Why don’t we pray for Hitler while we’re at it. And I hope you know I am joking. It just seems like a waste to pray for people that deserve to go where they are probably going. Nonetheless, it seems like a nice thought. Idealy it would be nice if Hell is completely empty.
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Sincere prayer is never a waste. Remember that we get graces ourselves when we praying for other people, and we would even if it had no effect on the people we’re praying for.
 
How is it a waste? Was it a waste for Jesus to pray that God forgives those that have harmed and crucified him? Look at the cruelty he went through! It looks like his tormentors didn’t deserve forgiveness, but he still wanted to give it. We have to assume they got it; after all, we gained salvation and now its up to us to keep it.

Also remember that whoever harms any person, has harmed Jesus. So yes, Saddam deserves forgiveness and mercy. We cannot judge if he went to Hell or Purgatory, because that’s for God to decide. We can only pray for his soul and hope very hard that he may have a last-minute change of heart–or an earlier change of heart!

In all we do, we must love. Not condemn.
wjp984 said:
Why don’t we pray for Hitler while we’re at it. And I hope you know I am joking. It just seems like a waste to pray for people that deserve to go where they are probably going. Nonetheless, it seems like a nice thought. Idealy it would be nice if Hell is completely empty.
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