... in the name of god ... in this case allah (at least one version of allah).
Yet hundreds, thousands and maybe millions prayed to their god to save him - mostly christians praying to the christian god to deliver this dedicated, brave young professional from the hands of his captors.
But aren't they arguably the same god - including the god of the hebrews?!?
One version of god is claimed to have ordered/demanded the head of this man (as interpreted by the men of ISIL) and another version of god did not see any benefit in sparing him.
How is it that anyone can see a "just" god acting in any capacity in this or any other situation? And if there is, which one is the "one true god"? Or are there many gods that are competing for top spot? Or is one a false god - satan - acting in a capacity of god to delude and mislead his "followers" down a path of conflict, death and suffering.
What do you tell people who believe in a merciful, all loving, just god as to why he didn't lift a finger - hear their prayers. What do you tell people who believe in a version of allah that claim their god would NEVER want such a thing to happen? I can assure you, many of them prayed for this NOT to happen as well - maybe even some of the captors, themselves, prayed to the god/allah to reconsider such a heinous, sinister, senseless murder.
Where was god?
The ONLY answer that makes ANY sense that fits every single aspect and angle of this situation is - there is no god, no allah, no yahweh ... none, nada, nil ... never has been ... including satan. It's all a fiction and MEN are responsible 100% for this murder. Men use the concept of a supernatural being to shirk their responsibility for their inhuman behavior. And those men, women and children that pray and worship the version of god that would NOT be "okay" with this vile murder will unanimously give god an excuse of not lifting a finger to stay the hand of the murderer(s) ... and they will go to church on sunday and pray that god will prevent the other hostages (Steven Sotloff et. al.) from meeting the same fate but other than that, they will merrily accept that their god "works in mysterious ways" that they simply cannot comprehend.
I'm sorry, but that's JUST not good enough for a deity - any deity - that is supposed to know see and hear everything and be the creator of the world/universe. It really isn't. Time to wake up and recognize who is at fault in all this - humans - we made the gods, we act on the "command" of these gods ... which is really just our own voice/thoughts under a different "name" ... so it's us - humanity - who has the blood on it's hands.
Time to wash it off and be done with it.
"What do you tell people who believe in a version of allah that claim their god would NEVER want such a thing to happen?"
ReplyDeleteIdk....I guess you tell them that this comes with the turf when it comes to (supposed) "revealed truth", beliefs that are ultimately unfalsifiable. One person says "Allah" or "Jesus" wants X, Y, and Z; another person says "Allah" or "Jesus" wants A, B and C. It's all a grab-bag.
And of course, the moderates and liberals of any religion always get caught in the crossfire when the wackos get called out, despite that the latter are the ones who actually take the scripture at its face-value. It's a real problem.
The real problem is, it's the wackos that are RUNNING the show - in almost all major religions ... the moderates and liberals - bless their hearts - they KNOW these extremists are wrong in totality but do contortionist-like acrobatics to actually ACCOMMODATE them! Either the religious mods/libs are powerless or otherwise unable to put them in their place and set them straight ... which is tantamount to giving tacit approval to let the wackos run over them at will and speak for them. I suspect that it's even worse in that the mod/libs of any particular religion are actually paralyzed by unadulterated fear of even the remotest appearance of disagreement for fear of stepping into the cross hairs of the unhinged fringe - anyone who even breathes a hint of dissent from the nutbar version of religious ideology is opening themselves to being barbarically beheaded right along with the infidels.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's a proven strategy for groups like ISIL/ISIS to subscribe ... it has worked in Nazi Germany, Soviet Union under Stalin, the Baath party in Iraq, Iran, Syria and so on ... threaten everyone with the most heinous atrocities and they will grovel at your feet and do your bidding ... everyone spying on their mothers, brothers and neighbors and afraid to even consider any opinion that might even hint at being considered blasphemous for fear of torture and death.
In western conservative fundamental xian communities it's less fear of physical violence (although I bet there are many veiled threats) but more social - fear of being "exposed" and being made a social pariah to the point that one meets financial ruin and completely ostracized - shunned.
It's evil shit to not "believe" as the nutbars require
In essence, it's a modern day Inquisition. Scary sh*t.
ReplyDeleteI was going to say "worse than the Inquisition" ... but then again, in fact, the inquisition was all about one single theology as dictated by god's representative on earth (christian god in the case of the inquisition) meaning, the pope
ReplyDeleteSo yeah - it really is EXACTLY like the inquisition - only the muslim version