Perpetrators & Victims, Humans All | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Its an interesting topic, paraticulary the Pope's remarks about punching an aide who insulted his mother (of course, if that aide were a priest, the Pope would be excommunicated if the aide were a cleric - althugh there might be an exception for the Pontiff. Violence toward each other and other species (like the beef hot dog I am eating now) is hardwired into our DNA. We need Christ to overcome it - and sometimes that is not even enough. Were it not for the Pope's brilliant idea to liberate the Holy Land and have Crusades, we would have no problems with our Muslim brothers. So its a valid question - although the math questions should use convention. The dead include everyone, but the three killers are not listed as victims. Suicides, probably, but not victims.
On Nazi Germany, the eradication (which probably did not stop any fascism from happening underground) should definitely be discussed because there is a deep debt of sin to be remembered which may never be expiated (except when others decide to forgive). For the killing of Romany, I need to see some more public contrition and public examination before I am willing to forgive the Parajmos. Ineed, such an examination my be a good reminder for those who currently pesecute my people. Yes, we do have our faults - but possibly come of them have to with past acts of persecution and mass murder (a claim that some Muslims can make in the current world, with its merciless drone strikes that kill the children with the soldiers - because in a revolutionary war, that's how most live - with the family).
Of course, the history of drones starts with a little test program in the mid 70s developing mini-remote piloted vehicles and morped to the ability to deliver death for the Pentagon, local Headquarters and the CIA. Its death by development contract and it is all so anti-septic unless you are being bombed. Something starting at a kitchen table on a Sunday afternoon to meet a proposal deadline leading to death from above. No perpetrators have been killed today in Drone attacks, but many have died. The newspaper have have used fighting words (which in the US is not protected speech), but I can find no protection in death from above and afar (and becaue the program lasted so long, from beyond grave - aside from history, how is one judged for murders peretrated by someone else with the weapon you designed which occurred after you died? Deeper question than counting the death of three terrorists.
So who bares responsibility? The children of the genius whose inventions resulted in death from above - death that also includes children? Most priests would say it is not the sin of the child or the father - but ultimately those who decide to use the weapon to kill villiages in pursuit of combatants. Even then, we rely on the mercy of Christ - which includes the will to forgive in Paris - for that is how his message of forgiveness works - as we forgive the sins of others.
This also comes back to Palestine - and the cousins of the Palestinian Arabs whose ancestors were Samaritans and are akin to the Romany (who were killed by the Germans). Fix this and the Muslim world's hate largely disappears - but can our forgiveness go that far? It has to or the blood on both sides will continue to flow - and with Zionists in Israel in deep trouble as I am sure there are those as brilliant as the long dead Romany of Belgian ancestry who desingned the drone avionics that was used to kill those related to him. This question is about more than the last two weeks - but maybe we must start by going back to our foundational prayer and say it like we mean it - remembering who is our neighbor and the fact that he probably is or supports a Samaritan.
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