Re: Tragedy at Fort Hood by Dr. Jerry Fay PHD.
Dr. Jerry Fay has again mastered my Blog on the Tragedy at Fort Hood. I wanted you to read it. He brings up many valid points.
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The Blame Game
Lady Nancy Astor, a 20th century member of the British Parliament said, “I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.” Mankind has been in the “blaming business” since Eden.
Thus, we use this psychological tool to rationalize, defend, manipulate, or to explain the thinking and behavior of ourselves, and others.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan was apparently angry over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then in a matter of minutes 13 people were dead and 29 others were wounded. Hasan had commented that the war on terror was "a war on Islam."
Blame friends and coworkers. Osman Danquah , a retired Army first sergeant, had told the shooter that Muslims were fighting each other in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories.
Blame the Army. Dr. Val Finnell said of Hasan that he should have been confronted about his radical beliefs. "In retrospect, I'm not surprised he did it," Finnell said of the shootings. "I had real questions about what his priorities were, what his beliefs were."
Blame the Islamic Community. "I told him, `There's something wrong with you,'" Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "I didn't get the feeling he was talking for himself, but something just didn't seem right."
In a sense, blaming is pointless; it will not justify the shootings nor change the reality of the tragedy.
Blame Terrorism. Hasan is said to have jumped on a desk and shouted "Allah akbar!" ("God is great!"). The Catechism of the Catholic Church (2297) says, “Terrorism threatens, wounds, and kills indiscriminately is gravely against justice and charity.”
Blame the wickedness of the human heart. Jeremiah 17:7 says “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
History is filled with episodes of misguided violence in the name of Religion.
What can we learn from this tragedy? Perhaps Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and philosopher, (121-180 A.D.) gives the best answer when he said, “The best part of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury.”
The Persecuted One said, “. . . Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you . . .”
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The Blame Game
Lady Nancy Astor, a 20th century member of the British Parliament said, “I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.” Mankind has been in the “blaming business” since Eden.
Thus, we use this psychological tool to rationalize, defend, manipulate, or to explain the thinking and behavior of ourselves, and others.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan was apparently angry over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then in a matter of minutes 13 people were dead and 29 others were wounded. Hasan had commented that the war on terror was "a war on Islam."
Blame friends and coworkers. Osman Danquah , a retired Army first sergeant, had told the shooter that Muslims were fighting each other in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories.
Blame the Army. Dr. Val Finnell said of Hasan that he should have been confronted about his radical beliefs. "In retrospect, I'm not surprised he did it," Finnell said of the shootings. "I had real questions about what his priorities were, what his beliefs were."
Blame the Islamic Community. "I told him, `There's something wrong with you,'" Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "I didn't get the feeling he was talking for himself, but something just didn't seem right."
In a sense, blaming is pointless; it will not justify the shootings nor change the reality of the tragedy.
Blame Terrorism. Hasan is said to have jumped on a desk and shouted "Allah akbar!" ("God is great!"). The Catechism of the Catholic Church (2297) says, “Terrorism threatens, wounds, and kills indiscriminately is gravely against justice and charity.”
Blame the wickedness of the human heart. Jeremiah 17:7 says “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
History is filled with episodes of misguided violence in the name of Religion.
What can we learn from this tragedy? Perhaps Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and philosopher, (121-180 A.D.) gives the best answer when he said, “The best part of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury.”
The Persecuted One said, “. . . Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you . . .”
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