Prayers for Saddam Hussein

[Valke2]

Excuse me, I follow the man known as Jesus Christ. I cannot begin to imagine what he did to those families, but I know this, all men, no matter how evil or demented, are entitled to prayers for mercy. I love and care about my brethren, what about you? I will also pray for those who lost their family members at his hands, and I shall also pray for Saddam. If you don’t want to, than don’t. But please ask yourself after his body goes limp, and he descends into darkness, ask yourself if Our Father wanted you to have helped him, because whether he deserved to be or not, he was God’s child as much as you are?

Praying for the soul of Saddam is pretty low on my list of priorities. I’m sure God will understand if I choose not to ask him to treat Saddam Hussien with mercy. I will pray that his name be blotted from memory and may God in His infiite Wisdom and Jusitce, punish his soul for eternity.

 

[Valke2]

Since you come from a different belief system you likely don’t understand where we are coming from. We believe that God desires the salvation of all men (1 Tim 2:4).

I’m sure God provided him with many opportunities to redeem himself.

We are not praying that Saddam get a free ticket into heaven. Rather, we pray that he will come to repent his sins before his death

By the way, if one prays that Saddam will repent and God will be merciful to him, it absolutely does not mean that we aren’t praying for those who died at his hands. One prayer doesn’t preclude the other.

I’m not so sure about that. It is one thing to pray that Saddam truly repents. To do so would not dishonor those he murdered. It is another to pray that God has mecy on his soul. Personally, I could never embrace a belief system that provides for total redemption of the soul of a mass murderer. To me, that would make a mockery of our life here and of the afterlife.

 

[LilyM]

Praying for the soul of Saddam is pretty low on my list of priorities. I’m sure God will understand if I choose not to ask him to treat Saddam Hussien with mercy. I will pray that his name be blotted from memory and may God in His infiite Wisdom and Jusitce, punish his soul for eternity.

Oh God will understand all right. God may just understand so well that he decides to pay you back with your own heartless coin and send you off to keep Saddam company for eternity - we none of us deserve any less!

 

[kellie]

Appears the execution may have happened 10 minutes ago.

I have a few tears.

Lord have mercy on his soul.

 

[Valke2]

Oh God will understand all right. God may just understand so well that he decides to pay you back with your own heartless coin and send you off to keep Saddam company for eternity - we none of us deserve any less!

I’ll take that chance. Imagine the irony. Saddam commits genocide and his soul is redeemed. I curse Saddam for commiting genocide and my soul is forfeit.

 

[Curiouse]

It’s official, Saddam is Dead, I believe an Italian Prayer for the dead would be appropriate as of right now…

I san del dio, vengono al suo sussidio! Venuto venirlo a contatto di, angeli del signore! Maggio Christ, che li ha denominati, li prende sè; possono gli angeli li conducono al lato del Abraham. Dia a him/her il resto eterno, signore della O e possa il vostro lustro chiaro su lui per mai. Preghiamo. dio Tutto-potente e merciful, lodiamo a voi, Saddam. Nella vostri misericordia ed amore, macchisi verso l’esterno tutti i sins che ha commesso con la debolezza umana. In questo mondo è morto: lascilo vivere con voi per mai. Chiediamo questo attraverso Christ al nostro signore.

AMEN.

 

[Image_of_God]

It’s official, Saddam is Dead, I believe a Latin Prayer for the dead would be appropriate as of right now…

Why?

 

[Image_of_God]

I’ll take that chance. Imagine the irony. Saddam commits genocide and his soul is redeemed. I curse Saddam for commiting genocide and my soul is forfeit.

God is loving and compassionate…he wills not the death of the wicked.

 

[Valke2]

I can possibly understand praying for Saddam to repent while he is alive. But why would you feel it necessary to pray for his soul now that he is dead?

 

[Image_of_God]

Appears the execution may have happened 10 minutes ago.

I have a few tears.

Lord have mercy on his soul.

Why do we have to kill people to show people killing is wrong? Why?

He probably thinks that nobody cared, even as sinful as he was…

 

[Kevin42]

I think it’s important that as much as some of us prayed for Saddam, that we pray equally as much for his victims and their families.

 

[LilyM]

I can possibly understand praying for Saddam to repent while he is alive. But why would you feel it necessary to pray for his soul now that he is dead?

For starters we believe in a little place called Purgatory - and that our prayers can help those who end up there.

Secondly - we don’t know in absolute detail what happens after death. Possibly people are given a final chance even after they die.

Thirdly - God is outside of time. Many saints have believed that he can in fact apply prayers retroactively (yes I know it sounds slightly spacey but it’s entirely possible!)

Fourthly - no prayer is ever wasted. WE benefit as well when we pray for others. We don’t know whether it’s applied to the cause we want it for but it definitely does good somewhere out there.

 

[Image_of_God]

I can possibly understand praying for Saddam to repent while he is alive. But why would you feel it necessary to pray for his soul now that he is dead?

Why…there is no point in this…killing him…

 

[mommyof4]

It is done…

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saddam

 

[Dranu]

I do think there are more prudent things we can argue for, than to preserve a life of a mass murderer. Lets not judge his soul, but don’t spend too much time weeping over this man, as there are others who deserve your tears far more who die every minute.

 

[Karianne]

Appears the execution may have happened 10 minutes ago.

I have a few tears.

Lord have mercy on his soul.

Me too. I heard the reporters say that there was celebratory gunfire. Anderson Cooper asked how they knew it was celebratory. One reporter says it and the rest all pick up on it. It was a relief to hear Anderson ask an intelligent question.

 

[Karianne]

Why do we have to kill people to show people killing is wrong? Why?

He probably thinks that nobody cared, even as sinful as he was…

That makes me even sadder. I hope that he knew that some of us do not delight in this death.
I understand that his victims are glad that he’s gone, however I can’t be glad.
But I do understand.

 

[Image_of_God]

I do think there are more prudent things we can argue for, than to preserve a life of a mass murderer. Lets not judge his soul, but don’t spend too much time weeping over this man, as there are others who deserve your tears far more who die every minute.

You’re right, but even so a wicked man needs to be loved. Charity is the only thing that can change a wicked man from his wickedness. And this is the Charity of God.

 

[Image_of_God]

That makes me even sadder. I hope that he knew that some of us do not delight in this death.
I understand that his victims are glad that he’s gone, however I can’t be glad.
But I do understand.

Yes, we do not delight in the death of the wicked…neither does God.

 

[Image_of_God]

I’m sure God provided him with many opportunities to redeem himself.

I’m not so sure about that. It is one thing to pray that Saddam truly repents. To do so would not dishonor those he murdered. It is another to pray that God has mecy on his soul. Personally, I could never embrace a belief system that provides for total redemption of the soul of a mass murderer. To me, that would make a mockery of our life here and of the afterlife.

This is where Judaism and Christianity differ. Jesus was a loving person, who sought not the death of any person, but that all should come to repentance.

We want him to be redeemed, it is what Christ wants. God is omnibenevolent. He wills good for all things, even the wicked…why don’t you?