If you ask most people this question, they will say something like, “If you do more good things than bad things, God will probably let you into heaven.” The above thinking will reserve your place in hell. You need FAITH IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS. There are no good deeds that you can do on your own that will erase the sins that you have committed. Jesus SHED BLOOD for you sins. He came to save you from the GUILT of past sins and the POWER of sin over your life. You are about to read the most important information that you will ever read. It is called the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Don’t believe it. And don’t believe it if someone tells you that you can go to heaven by blowing yourself up in a crowded market either. Never believe anyone that professes to know things that they have no authority or qualification to know.
The LA Times reports:
The frequency of suicide bombings here is unprecedented, exceeding the practice through years of the Palestinian uprising against Israel and other militant insurgencies such as the Chechen rebellion in Russia. Baghdad alone saw five suicide bombings in a six-hour span Sunday.
:::flip:::
The article goes on to claim that while the vast majority of resisters in Iraq are Iraqi, the vast majority of suicide bombers are not. I am little skeptical of that fact, after all, the article also notes that the bombers never carry identification and usually leave no identifiable body parts. So how do they know?
Yet, if it is true it certainly testifies to the effectiveness of the tactic.
Putting this all together, the LA Times is claiming that a tiny minority of non-Iraqi insurgents are responsible for the majority of casualties.
Even if this is an exaggeration, it is disturbing. Who are the adults that are allowing their sons to travel to Iraq and be talked into driving an explosive laden car into an Iraqi police station? Who are the Iraqis that are talking these people into ending their lives?
I’ll tell you who. Wingnuts.
Wingnuts come in two varieties and they both figure here. The first type of wingnut actually believes in his simplistic version of religion. The second type of wingnut is willing to cynically exploit the first. In fact, the second kind of wingnut relies on perpetuating a giant pool of the first type of wingnut in order to gain power and to exploit that power. Twas ever thus.
What we are observing in Iraq is a war between America’s first type of wingnut versus Islam’s first type of wingnut. Both sides are being led by the second type of wingnut.
On our side, we have soldiers dying because they think we are bringing freedom to Iraq. On their side we have kids dying because they have been told they will go to heaven and gain posthumous honors.
It’s sick. And I don’t want to hear about how suicide bombers are a legitimate tactic for an outgunned colonized guerilla army. Those bombers are/were human beings that have been lied to, coerced, and exploited. Most of them probably deserve an iota of sympathy. But they deserve no honors, and the people that sent them to their deaths are no soldiers.
