[lit-ideas] Re: God loves a good laugh as much as anyone!

Sounds like the people are zombified and in trance states.  Pretty much the 
norm throughout history.  Not so different than stoning someone to death or 
when during Elizabethan times it was customary to bribe the executor with the 
Ax to make it quick.   Likewise the Romans (whom we like to think we resemble) 
threw people to lions and watched them get torn to pieces for entertainment; 
crucifixions, Vikings accused each other of being baby lovers if they refused 
to toss babies in the air and spear them.  Abu Ghraib, Mi Lai (which was not an 
isolated incident); serial killers get fan mail and marriage proposals in 
prison by the boxful, and on and on and on.  One has to wonder if God is shut 
down too.  We're created in his image...


--- On Sat, 6/28/08, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] God loves a good laugh as much as anyone!
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008, 2:47 AM






"Whoever, for the sake of money, for the sake of America, harms the interest of 
the Islamic world will meet the same fate," Rehman said.
Gunmen with daggers then pounced on one of the men -- identified as Jan Wali, 
36 -- decapitated him and waved his bloody head to the cheering crowd, 
according to an Associated Press reporter and AP Television News footage.
The militants then argued over how to kill the other man because he may have 
been a teenager, before one lost patience and shot him with an assault rifle.
The crowd erupted in cheers of "God is great!" and gunmen fired in the air in 
jubilation. The celebratory gunfire killed two bystanders and wounded six, 
local official Fazal Rabbi said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/368769_pakistan28.html
Mike Geary
Memphis

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