Christians issue "yellow alert" on tolerance.
So reads the headline in today's issue of the Jakarta Post. It seems that the haters are once again after the dead, as at least 19 grave markers were wrecked at three cemeteries in Central Java. Crosses were torn down or effaced, marble slabs hammered to pieces. That'll teach those dead Christians!
I can't help but see this as a step forward, in a positive way, where religious intolerance is concerned. After all, no one was hurt or terrorized. Not one of the corpses residing in the assaulted graves has raised any complaint of injury whatsoever. Intolerance exercised upon the dead seems the most palatable sort of intolerance, even for the victims, who of course are blissfully unaware.
Why do you stand there staring at the sky? Or, for that matter, kicking at the grave. He is not there. He has risen.
So reads the headline in today's issue of the Jakarta Post. It seems that the haters are once again after the dead, as at least 19 grave markers were wrecked at three cemeteries in Central Java. Crosses were torn down or effaced, marble slabs hammered to pieces. That'll teach those dead Christians!
I can't help but see this as a step forward, in a positive way, where religious intolerance is concerned. After all, no one was hurt or terrorized. Not one of the corpses residing in the assaulted graves has raised any complaint of injury whatsoever. Intolerance exercised upon the dead seems the most palatable sort of intolerance, even for the victims, who of course are blissfully unaware.
Why do you stand there staring at the sky? Or, for that matter, kicking at the grave. He is not there. He has risen.
2 comments:
Only the dead go after the dead.
Anon--One can hardly pity the corpse which has been left behind, nor the plot of earth in which it resides; one must, however, pity those whose understanding has been so darkened that they imagine the defiling of graves would be somehow pleasing to God.
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