Life's mysteries

Posted at 10:58 AM on March 12, 2008 by Bob Collins (2 Comments)

While you're pondering the mystery of how a politician with a reputation for high ethics gets himself hooked up with a prostitution ring, here's another mystery of the mind to consider. How does a priest get around to masterminding the mass murder of 1,500 people who sought refuge in his church?

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Comments (2)

It's not a mystery Bob.
Contradictions happen with complicated circumstances.
A well ordered life is a thing to behold and emulate.
Flaws and foibles and failings, however are in the mix.
You may tire easily of those less than you and dismiss them with a slur and a snicker of of incredulity yet there, but for grace, we go.

Spitzer was in as complicated a fray as there is. Ruwanda in the killing time was awful too.
To not get the back story and suck your teeth in tut-tuts above the fray is plain simple minded and nasty.

Posted by Nick Schommer | March 12, 2008 11:49 AM

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Nick, I don't think we're talking here about little things, though. Is mass murder -- by a priest no less -- a foible? A mere flaw?

I think not. I think there's more than the grace of God at work for those who don't commit mass murder or hire hookers.

I think as far as slurs go, a priest who locks 1,500 in a church, then orders bulldozers to demolish it, then sends in militiamen to kill any survivors with machetes and guns, has more than earned it.

I also admit to taking comfort in the fact there are still certain acts that are completely unfathomable.

Posted by Bob Collins | March 12, 2008 12:34 PM

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