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PERVERTING THE SACRED NAME OF GOD

KWADWO KYEI

One of the things that most people seem to have a hard time accepting when it comes to spiritual matters is the religious belief that blood can be spilled in the name of God. It is a very strange belief that runs counter to the very concept of God as an entity of infinite goodness, a Deity who abhors all manner of evil. Unless I am missing something in the Scriptures - and I may very well be - I believe that taking innocent human life is the ultimate evil, and that killing in the name of God is the ultimate contradiction in terms.

Like most people, it is very difficult for me to suscribe to the notion, held by Muslim fanatics who call for Jihad, that the likes of Mohamed Atta, who seize airplanes full of passengers and willfully crash them into public buildings causing thousands of deaths and injuries, are doing God’s work and will be rewarded by Him with a cozy place in Heaven along with an entourage of beautiful virgins. This, in my opinion, is a monstrous perversion of the sacred name of God and a preposterous misrepresentation of what the after-life is all about.

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