In The Name Of God

A bomb blast, people dead, a lot of grieving souls, and a bunch of joyous dimwits who engineered these explosions. This sequence of events is no stranger to people across the world, and the world is informed by a bunch of trigger and bomb happy morons with great pride that these acts have been committed in the Name of God. What an irony, I say.

If these people knew what God stood for, we won’t be mourning the loss on innocent lives. And on that point I introspect as to why is my God so different from their? For one, isn’t God supposed to be one not matter what name we call him?

But if these murderers, yes that is what they are to me, were clever enough to understand this simple fact that no God will ever be happy if people are massacred in her/his name, then we won’t be writing such posts, would we?

To me these people are just plain losers who are non-believers in God and are resorting to killing indiscriminately in the name of God to vent their frustration at not being able to fulfill their material desires. The logic is if I am not capable enough, or if I haven’t had the opportunity to go on and accumulate what I want, then the rest of the world should also not be allowed to do the same. And what better way to go about doing it than killing people in the name of God.

I know that most of you will rationalize that the guys who are indulging in such acts are poverty-stricken youths who have been misguided by a few cunning for their personal gains. I agree. But by that logic all of us have many desires that remain unfulfilled in a lifetime. So does that mean that all of us should go about blowing up people and places and then lay the blame on God’s doorstep?

I also agree with the argument that most of these killers are recruited at a very young age and are taught by force to believe in a reality that is totally different from reality. But does that absolve them of the crimes against humanity? No. And if these guys at 18 and 20 have been raised in an ideology of blood and death, then they cease to be humans and lose the right to freely move around civil society or whatever is left of it.

Last, all top politicians and intelligence agencies across the world know what they are up against and who the perpetrators of these crimes are. But unfortunately they chose to play politics over dead bodies. Instead of finding a permanent cure for this virus, they keep finding temporary patches. The permanent cure is to eliminate the source of such radical thinking. If the source is gone, then the thought will die its natural death.

I know that it is easy to write but difficult to execute. But can’t we put aside petty politics and at least make a beginning in the Name of God and show these people what God stands for? If the answer is No, then what can I say other than let us all be bombed to glory until kingdom comes.