Remember, remember the 30th of December
For those of you who didn't know, Saddam Hussein is dead, hung on the December 30th 2006.
His execution was performed on the days just before a large Muslim holiday, according to Muslim law you cannot execute anyone on this holiday, on top of that they wanted to make his death a momentous occasion that would be forever remembered as the day that Saddam Hussein was executed.
That was one of the worst days of my life...
It is a bizzare thing to imagine, isn't it, that i would be upset about Saddam Hussein being hung.
He did horrible thing, killed countless people, it was a major celebration for thousands of people that an evil man such as Saddam Hussein would have finally recieved his just reward for his wicked deeds. Right?
I would say wrong, until now i have not really been able to articulate why i believe this but i began to really realize i need to have a reason to tell people when they ask about my incredibly strange depression brought on by Saddam Hussein being put to death.
I suppose that the most foremost and obvious reason that i want to state first before any other is that Saddam Hussein was human, which means that no matter what he did, no matter how horrible or evil it may have seemed, he was still a man, not a demon not the devil, a man, capable of good and evil... just like the rest of us.
I remember seeing and hearing a lot of negativity about Saddam, i guess that is understandable considering that few people think the same way i do, no offense to anyone.
I was nearly destroyed when i heard that he had died that day, i was actually in a fairly good mood that day, then i heard he had been hung, suddenly i was depressed. One of the people on the top of my list of (living) people to meet was now dead.
I wanted to meet him, i wanted to show him something that had been misrepresented to him by Americans... Jesus, i know that it's crazy to think about or even to conceive of, ya know, i mean i knwo it was a pretty fantastical pipe dream to think i could have met him or even if i did that he would not have killed me for being American or Christian.
But you know what, no one is any less deserving of the love of Jesus Christ, no one. And that love was probably never shown to him to any extent. The only Jesus Saddam Hussein might have ever seen is America bombing his country, overthrowing his government, and putting him to death. What kind of Jesus is that!? No kind...
I cannot say that i agreed with anything that he did, i agree that he did so pretty evil things. But nothing he did was any worse or any more deserving of death than anything that you or i do or have done or will do. He killed people in brutal ways without much rhyme or reason, but i have fallen short of the glory of God as well, and so have you, under different circumstances you could be praising the death of the evil dictator Rusty Summay, or the brital serial killer Rusty Summay, but that's not how it happened, we praise the death of the evil dictator Saddam Hussein.
I can't and i won't, Saddam Hussein was just as much of a sinner as i am daily.
That is part of the reason that i have not and will never watch the video of Saddam being hung, that and i find it kind of sick that anyone would want to watch someone die, not to say that i have never felt like watching someone die, but i don't now, the part of me that liked that is now dead, and i intend to make sure that that part of me remains dead.
I find it funny that there is a stark contrast of personality and character in the two people Ghandi and Ted Bundy...
Between the two people remember Ghandi as a great man and a good man who fought without violence for the freedom of India from the British. Ted Bundy is remembered as the psychopathis killer who murdered more than 30 women, was a rapist and a sociopath.
This is a strange topic to go into considering i have been talking about Saddam Hussein, i know.
Between those two men one of them is remebered as a good man and the other is remembered as a bad man.
Between those two men one of them accepted Jesus: Ted Bundy.
I know, i know, there are those who believe that he did it just to gain sympathy form the courts, but we cannot judge his heart, and i sincerely hope that he did, i would love to know that Ted Bundy is in heaven right now 100% forgiven for all the atrosities he committed in life, and 100% loved by Jesus.
I would love to say the same thing about Ghandi, but Ghandi never even claimed to have accepted Christ, once again we cannot judge his heart, and i would sincerely hope that he would have accepted Jesus but as far as we know he did not.
Grace saves the day, a killer is in Heaven and a good man is in Hell, but that's not how it works. Being a good person doesn't get you into heaven, sadly enough, but beautifully enough being a bad person doesn't guarantee you Hell.
Jesus died for everyone, you, me, the pope, Billy Graham, Saddam Hussein, Ghandi, Ted Bundy, Kim Jong Il.
It drives me absolutely out of my mind when people talk about how the hate someone, because of there character, but i can't really say anything to them, i can only feel sad for them and sort of sympthize with them because i have hated before too, it is not a good feeling, nothing that happens to the people you hate is enough. But, as was well stated in "American History X" 'What, by hating, have i accomplished? How am i better through by being angry at anyone?" i my have misquoted that, but i think that was the jist of what the guy was saying.
I don't really have a good way to end this post, but i really don't want a very final closing because i will never stop loving all people, because Jesus loves them too. I would hope that you can love people like Saddam Hussein too, and if not, i can only feel sorry for you that you are not sharing in the love of Jesus Christ.
His execution was performed on the days just before a large Muslim holiday, according to Muslim law you cannot execute anyone on this holiday, on top of that they wanted to make his death a momentous occasion that would be forever remembered as the day that Saddam Hussein was executed.
That was one of the worst days of my life...
It is a bizzare thing to imagine, isn't it, that i would be upset about Saddam Hussein being hung.
He did horrible thing, killed countless people, it was a major celebration for thousands of people that an evil man such as Saddam Hussein would have finally recieved his just reward for his wicked deeds. Right?
I would say wrong, until now i have not really been able to articulate why i believe this but i began to really realize i need to have a reason to tell people when they ask about my incredibly strange depression brought on by Saddam Hussein being put to death.
I suppose that the most foremost and obvious reason that i want to state first before any other is that Saddam Hussein was human, which means that no matter what he did, no matter how horrible or evil it may have seemed, he was still a man, not a demon not the devil, a man, capable of good and evil... just like the rest of us.
I remember seeing and hearing a lot of negativity about Saddam, i guess that is understandable considering that few people think the same way i do, no offense to anyone.
I was nearly destroyed when i heard that he had died that day, i was actually in a fairly good mood that day, then i heard he had been hung, suddenly i was depressed. One of the people on the top of my list of (living) people to meet was now dead.
I wanted to meet him, i wanted to show him something that had been misrepresented to him by Americans... Jesus, i know that it's crazy to think about or even to conceive of, ya know, i mean i knwo it was a pretty fantastical pipe dream to think i could have met him or even if i did that he would not have killed me for being American or Christian.
But you know what, no one is any less deserving of the love of Jesus Christ, no one. And that love was probably never shown to him to any extent. The only Jesus Saddam Hussein might have ever seen is America bombing his country, overthrowing his government, and putting him to death. What kind of Jesus is that!? No kind...
I cannot say that i agreed with anything that he did, i agree that he did so pretty evil things. But nothing he did was any worse or any more deserving of death than anything that you or i do or have done or will do. He killed people in brutal ways without much rhyme or reason, but i have fallen short of the glory of God as well, and so have you, under different circumstances you could be praising the death of the evil dictator Rusty Summay, or the brital serial killer Rusty Summay, but that's not how it happened, we praise the death of the evil dictator Saddam Hussein.
I can't and i won't, Saddam Hussein was just as much of a sinner as i am daily.
That is part of the reason that i have not and will never watch the video of Saddam being hung, that and i find it kind of sick that anyone would want to watch someone die, not to say that i have never felt like watching someone die, but i don't now, the part of me that liked that is now dead, and i intend to make sure that that part of me remains dead.
I find it funny that there is a stark contrast of personality and character in the two people Ghandi and Ted Bundy...
Between the two people remember Ghandi as a great man and a good man who fought without violence for the freedom of India from the British. Ted Bundy is remembered as the psychopathis killer who murdered more than 30 women, was a rapist and a sociopath.
This is a strange topic to go into considering i have been talking about Saddam Hussein, i know.
Between those two men one of them is remebered as a good man and the other is remembered as a bad man.
Between those two men one of them accepted Jesus: Ted Bundy.
I know, i know, there are those who believe that he did it just to gain sympathy form the courts, but we cannot judge his heart, and i sincerely hope that he did, i would love to know that Ted Bundy is in heaven right now 100% forgiven for all the atrosities he committed in life, and 100% loved by Jesus.
I would love to say the same thing about Ghandi, but Ghandi never even claimed to have accepted Christ, once again we cannot judge his heart, and i would sincerely hope that he would have accepted Jesus but as far as we know he did not.
Grace saves the day, a killer is in Heaven and a good man is in Hell, but that's not how it works. Being a good person doesn't get you into heaven, sadly enough, but beautifully enough being a bad person doesn't guarantee you Hell.
Jesus died for everyone, you, me, the pope, Billy Graham, Saddam Hussein, Ghandi, Ted Bundy, Kim Jong Il.
It drives me absolutely out of my mind when people talk about how the hate someone, because of there character, but i can't really say anything to them, i can only feel sad for them and sort of sympthize with them because i have hated before too, it is not a good feeling, nothing that happens to the people you hate is enough. But, as was well stated in "American History X" 'What, by hating, have i accomplished? How am i better through by being angry at anyone?" i my have misquoted that, but i think that was the jist of what the guy was saying.
I don't really have a good way to end this post, but i really don't want a very final closing because i will never stop loving all people, because Jesus loves them too. I would hope that you can love people like Saddam Hussein too, and if not, i can only feel sorry for you that you are not sharing in the love of Jesus Christ.
posted by Russell Summay at 21:26
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