Massacre

Yesterday and today saw the Syrian government massacre over 200 of its own people - defectors from the army, and residents of a village near the Turkish border.  I am horrified at the brutality of the Assad regime - its willingness to murder its citizens in order to preserve dictatorial control.  It does not appear that the U.S. has any interest in military intervention.  I guess I'm okay with that.  We had no business going into Iraq - other than to control its oil output.  In Afghanistan, opium production has skyrocketed since our intervention began.

Some people may be sighing a sigh of relief that such massacres do not take place in our own country - except for the one in Waco in 1993 - - -  oh, and the one where they deliberately demolished the Twin Towers to trigger a Middle East war.  Good, white Christian folk just don't do that stuff, do they?  Well, yes, the good, white folk of Hitler's third Reich did it.  I guess it doesn't matter whether your skin is black, brown, red, yellow, olive or white, you are not immune from the tendency to massacre.  Obama's FCC is trying to control cable stations, radio broadcasts - even the Internet.  Massacres are just the last link in the chain of tyrannies required for curbing dissent and silencing protesters.  In 1900, the Russian "Russ" made up the largest group of Christians (100 million) in the world.  Stalin annihilated a significant portion of them.

Boy, a Telestial world can be a cruel place sometimes - and yet our universe is filled with them.  I like to watch those Science channel shows that show the fabric of the universe.  Our own galaxy has over 200 billion stars in it, and astronomers have detected at least 200 billion galaxies.  Do the math!

I guess I can take solace only in the fact that this mortal probation is but a brief moment in our eternal journey - that those poor Syrian villagers passed on relatively swiftly, and that they are in a more rewarding place now.  As a wise man recently noted, there is a set of scales in the divine control room, and when the oppression manifested by mankind surpasses the oppression required of God in the form of divine discipline, God can intervene.  It remains to be seen whether the atrocities of the 21st century are greater than those of earlier times.  I suspect they are.  I look at Europe - a place from whence the best blood of Israel was to come.  Europeans are under-reproducing.  More than half the households are a single person.  Russia is considering legalizing polygamy and banning abortion (the average Russian bride has had three abortions). Christianity in Europe is virtually dead.  Religion is seen as a joke.  The Mormon Church is shrinking in the British Isles - closing wards and chapels.  The love of men is "waxing cold".

I look at some of our politicians - Anthony Wiener, Rahm Emmanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Dick Cheney, Maxine Waters - the list goes on - and I think - "What would it take for them to call for a massacre, if it served their craven purposes enough?"

Are we really shielded from future holocausts?  With only three days worth of food in the grocery stores, and the whole Western world on the brink of insolvency, are we really secure?

I have said it many times, but when the fat hits the shin, there will be only two types of people in this world:

1.  The ones who would rather starve than kill a fellow human.
2.  The ones who would rather kill a fellow human than starve.

Which one are you?