Jew, Muslim and Christian: It is God Who is Being Murdered – L’Orient Le Jour, Lebanon

It’s one of the most perplexing paradoxes of the human condition: Why do people formed to worship a perfect, loving, omniscient, omnipresent god continue to murder one another in that very god’s name, millenia after millenia?

Shaming his mostly Muslim and Christian readers with a global exposition of this madness, Nagib Aoun of Lebanon’s L’Orient Le Jour points out the real casualty of this age-old contradiction.

For L’Orient Le Jour, Nagib Aoun writes in part:

The world has been mad since the very beginning. It went mad at the very moment Eve offered the forbidden fruit to Adam, and when Cain killed Abel. The madness has continued down the centuries, throughout all the years of disaster and distress, and won’t abate as long as man takes its madness for genius, its convictions for divine revelation, and its words as gospel.

“We need not go very far back. From a First World War in which soldiers went to their deaths with flowers inserted into the barrels of their guns; to a second global conflagration in which one man’s madness captivated the population and paved the way for the unthinkable- and for the Third World War that is now going on. It is a war of sacrificial terrorism in which thousands of people are killed or die in the name of Allah the Merciful. The body of evidence for the inevitable, as though it were written in the stars, is accumulating. Every day it’s more overwhelming – and every day there are more murderers.

“From Afghanistan to Iraq, from a bin Laden who thought he was the double-edged sword of Islam destined to punish infidels and eliminate “the new crusaders,” to a George Bush who claimed to be charged with a divine mission to eradicate evil, the religious factor is ubiquitous, always brandished to justify the unjustifiable and to buttress the legitimacy of dangerous adventures, of murderous expeditions.”

By Nagib Aoun

Translated By Helene Grinsted

November 12, 2009

Lebanon – L’Orient Le Jour – Home Page (French)

Is the world mad? Obviously it is totally and completely mad. It’s a mixed up world, given over to the hesitations of some and the destructive moods of others, all apparently oblivious to the world’s insanity, its schizophrenia.

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