NO JUSTIFICATION

THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN WHEN IT COMES TO PERSECUTION. OR UNDER THE MOON. OR UNDER THE STONE AS IRAN PROVED RECENTLY WITH THE STONING TO DEATH OF A MENTALLY RETARDED ADOLESCENT GIRL UNDER THE FALSE ACCUSATION OF SEDUCING AN OLDER MAN. THIS EXCUSE FOR EXECUTION SOUNDS LUDICROUS UNTIL ONE REALIZES THAT PERSECUTION CAN BE RETRIEVED FROM RECORDED HISTORY: OF SLAVES, INFIDELS, JEWS, HOMOSEXUALS, MUSLIMS, IMMIGRANTS, BLACKS, ORIENTALS, INDIANS, ABORIGINALS, APOSTATES, INFIDELS, DISSIDENTS, MERCENARIES, SINNERS, THE CLERGY, THE CLERISY, THE DEFORMED, THE POSSESSED, THE HANDICAPPED, THE DISEASED AND THE UNBORN. AFTER TROLLING THE WATERS OF INEQUITY WE FIND ANOTHER EXAMPLE TODAY IN 'GOOD 'OLE CIVILIZED' ENGLAND WHICH HAS AUTHORIZED 'MERCY KILLINGS' OF DEFORMED AND PREMATURE BABIES AS BURDENS UPON A FINANCIALLY STRAPPED SOCIETY.

THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN, MOON OR STONE. JOHN DRYDEN WROTE IN THE 17TH CENTURY, ALMOST 400 YEARS AGO, THAT "OF ALL THE TYRANNIES ON HUMAN KIND/THE WORST IS THAT WHICH PERSECUTES THE MIND." WHATEVER POSSESS PEOPLE TO RATIONALIZE THAT THEY CAN JUSTIFY THE WAYS OF MAN TO GOD?