Wednesday, November 17, 2010

What The Hell...?

Here's a philosophical question:

Does God differentiate between honor and truth on the one hand and malice and lies on the other?

When you get to the Pearly Gates does St. Peter, God's doorman, direct you to Heaven if you did a really bad thing but clothed the deed in the cloak of "it was the best remedy for the situation?"

If you kill someone who is about to kill you or your family, is the killing justified or does the Sixth Commandment nullify the justification?

With that in mind, one can only wonder what is going to happen when Bush, Jr., Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle and Wolfowitz get to that final choice point.

What will St. Peter say when confronted with people who either perpetrated the horror of war or championed it?

These people all purport to be religious. They are all God-fearing, church-going, Bible-thumping adherents to the Judeo-Christian ethic. They all recite the Ten Commandments and preach family values and the words of Jesus.

They advocate sending our children to war and sanction torture all the while justifying their actions by asserting that they are necessary in order to "save the country" and to "preserve democracy and our way of life."

But...back to the original question. Is it wrong to kill or is killing ok if you can justify it? Will God make a distinction and send the offender to Heaven? Or will the killer go straight to Hell?

The abovementioned believe in Heaven and Hell. They believe they have lived good lives and that they will have a place at God's right hand listening to harps and being served cool drinks by floating angels.

What if God interprets his commandments differently? What if God thinks that killing is killing no matter what the excuse?

I wonder if they ever thought about that possibility?

I wonder if they've packed for a warmer climate?

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