Tuesday, May 11, 2004

The cycle of moron continues

According to the CBC, the terrorists that kidnapped Nick Berg brutally killed him, in retaliation for Abu Ghraib.

I am so long past believing violent opportunists. They want to kill, and their desire to do so comes from innate hatred. They would do it anyway, for any provocation. For anyone who was truly offended by Abu Ghraib, murdering someone in this way is absolutely the last way you would respond.

No, the only good reaction you can have to this atrocity, that atrocity, or any atrocity is the reaction of St. Francis of Assisi:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred let me sow love,
where there is injury, your pardon,
where there is doubt, true faith in you;
where there is despair in life let me bring hope,
where there is darkness, only light,
and where there is sadness, ever joy;

O Master grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand,
to be loved, as to love with all my soul!
For it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
in giving of ourselves that we receive,
and in dying that we are born to eternal life.

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