This was what I posted to Facebook when Maggie Thatcher died.
A few people in her may be able to relate:
What has happened to decency? I am totally disgusted with the national pastime of dancing on the graves of people you politically disagree with.
When a person dies, in the overwhelming majority of cases, the classy response is to be gracious and allow other people to honor them. There are very few Hitler, Stalin, Rios Montt and Torquemada types who were EVIL. Their names, as Proverbs says, will rot, and rightly so. Most people are instead a mixed bag. What is so horrible about granting them a little respect and kindness?
This business of being gleeful at the death of Ted Kennedy (as Breitbart did) or then celebrating the death of Breitbart and using the justification that “he did it to Kennedy” is despicable, childish, peevish, classless and hate filled.
.... let me say to any of my “progressive” friends who have said the most despicable things about Margaret Thatcher: Don’t hand me your crap about love and tolerance and joy and all the faux moralisms of the left while you engage in this kind of petty and hateful stuff. The woman is dead. At the WORST, she caused the gap between rich and poor to increase and engaged in a needless short military conflict with Argentina, and furthered the rise of corporatism. These are contested opinions, as well (two of which I agree with) She did not leave piles of bodies, she did not preside over multitudes plunged into penury. If you are so wedded to your political ideology that you cannot distinguish between the incendiary rhetoric of the political left and reality, then you really have nothing intelligent to say and should stop embarrassing yourself, and just shut up. You CERTAINLY have nothing to say about the crap I hear about “love” and “tolerance” and “acceptance.”
If your response to this is “well, the bible bangers do it!” I will say “yes, that does happen. That is,in fact the point, isn’t it. You are both mirror images of the ones you say you hate. I know how it is, btw. It is a delicious evil to chomp into a misery sandwich of celebration of the death of someone you REALLY did not like. It is there in me,as well as in you. It is a celebration of the evil you say you dislike in the other person.
Mirror, anyone?
RIP Margaret Thatcher.
Good post.
Also, scapegoating a mortal figure, even a prominent one, doesn’t further the battle of good against evil. It only distracts us. Did Mandela do anything good at all, well we should try not to stop that. Did Mandela fail, and yield to sin or leave good things undone. Well we should try to remedy that. And God is whom we should be looking to in order to get it done.
thanks for that post. it spoke to me...maybe i will temper my attitude around my co-workers tomorrow, who are going to be in complete idol worship about mandela.