May 12, 2004

Truly at a loss for words

Updated: Juliette has some of the most profound thoughts on death. Please read them.

Updated 2: Zombyboy, Vodkapundit, La Shawn, and Patrick have some thought provoking posts, as well.


I simply don't know what to say.

I watched most of the video last night (against my better judgement), but began to wretch towards the end and had to leave the computer to be sick.

It is unfathomable to me to be Nick Berg's family. I am only his lowly fellow countrymen and my heart is desperately ill within me.

I don't know that they will experience it in this life, but I pray for the comfort of this family.

I will say that my soul rages against these who committed this heinous atrocity; against the media who, without conscience, keep ravaging the hearts of Mr. Berg's family like wild dogs by playing over and over and over and over the video of his murder; against the people who are so brainwashed that they truly believe this to have been acceptable in the eyes of God. My only hope and assurance is that they will be held accountable someday by the Great God of Heaven, the One and Only. I wonder if Nick Berg's screams will pass through their minds as they beg for mercy before the Most High Judge of all men. Perhaps they will be confused as to why there are no virgins there to offer themselves as trophies for their "victory" but only the wrath of an angry God? Much to their confusion, they will see God Himself, wipe away the tears of anguish from the eyes of the woman who bore him and sweetly held his hand on his first day of school and the father who spoke lovingly to his son while still in his mother's womb and threw a baseball with his boy in the sun of a Pennsylvannia evening and the siblings who shared a sandbox, the secrets of one another's hearts, the dreams of life together.

May God comfort the Berg family and may God rest the soul of Nick Berg.

Posted by Rae at May 12, 2004 08:09 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Amen, Rae.

Posted by: zombyboy at May 12, 2004 09:00 PM

My feelings about this are similar to my feelings following 9/11. I don't want to forget it, but it's too damn much to think about all the time.

Thanks, Rae for giving me something more than the horror to contemplate, the bitter sweet realization that our Vindicator lives.

But as for me, I know that my Vindicator lives, and that he will at last stand forth upon the dust;

And from my flesh I shall see God; my inmost being is consumed with longing.

Whom I myself shall see: my own eyes, not another's, shall behold him,

But you who say, "How shall we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in him?"

Be afraid of the sword for yourselves, for these crimes deserve the sword; that you may know that there is a judgment.

Job 19:25-29

Posted by: Patrick at May 12, 2004 11:45 PM

What a beautiful and appropriate scripture, Patrick. Thank you for sharing it.

Posted by: Rae at May 12, 2004 11:58 PM

Amen. To all of it.

Posted by: willow at May 13, 2004 11:02 AM

I watched the whole video myself, thinking I could hanle it. When I head "beheading", I figured I've seen that in the movies. No, not this. This horrific act will haunt me for a long time to come. Not human, is the only way I can describe those that did this. How another human being could saw off the head of another whilst they are still alive, and then hold his head up for the world to see, I'll never know. I know of no justice that could be done to these barbaric animals that could equal what they have done to poor Nick Berg. I hope his name lives on for a long time as a reminder to the inhumane injustice that these barbarians could do. Part of me wants revenge. I'm just not sure I'm gonna get it, and that's sad. Mostly for this poor boys family. I think of my sons. My 13 year old, and my 3 year old. To think that something like this could happen to them, is unimmaginable. I hope that these barbarians have to go through an eternity of hell, with nothing but pain, and screaming the screams of agony they have caused. I hope that they are haunted by it for an eternity. I know of no other justice. If there is such a thing. I just cannot imagine what it would be. I shed tears for this poor young man who obviously had no idea his life was about to end in such a horrific manner. And his parents who must live with the fact that his last moments of horror have now been immortilized, to the glory of these savages. I shed a tear for humanity, and for all that is sacred. For my children, may they never witness, nor experience such horror. I wish I had not.

Posted by: bsager at May 13, 2004 10:53 PM
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