Thomas Paine once said, “Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
It is an interesting quote in many ways as it really makes your mind twist. Even though we live in a country that was founded on Judeo Christian values, there still are many times and instances where we see people here acting with very cruel and harsh behavior, often in the name of their religion. I am not talking about just in the US in particular. If you stop and think about what is happening in many places in the world we can see the widespread anger everywhere, as seen the past week in Afganistan over the burning of the Koran. Two Americans that were there to help the Afganistan people were killed because of the actions of someone else. These two soldiers probably had families and may have been reservists that were called to duty to simply do what they were told to do.
What is the sense in the attempt to help a people like the Afghani people? Let’s face it, this is a politically based campaign and we are there for many other reasons other than helping the country to be free of the Taliban. It is truly sad for the many innocents that will have to endure their uncertain futures at the hands of these merciless and hateful miscreants.
But what is the point of the hatred? Their beliefs have them on the verge of complete insanity. Especially when you consider that we are all facing one major enemy on this planet. There is a growing evil and it knows no boundaries. If someone were to burn a bible would we be in the streets trying to kill the people that were from the same country of the bible burner? Especially if they were there trying to help us to be free of our predicament? It is further evidence that we cannot be policing all of the problems of the world, even if the effort, at some level, was made to make a positive difference. God Bless the soldiers that have given their lives to do what they were told, many with a good heart. Shame on the hate filled hearts of those who would show so much disdain for people that were trying to help them. Since I began to write this post 2 more U.S. officials were killed over this same belief. Bring our troops home. The mission is over.