If, on the other hand, some of them went to heaven instead, a little pain is of no importance to them either!
What nobody has brought up yet though, is that sarin gas and other weaponized chemicals can injure as well as kill. The deaths are just the tip of the casualty iceberg. There are probably many people who will live the rest of their lives with lung injuries - and possibly pain. That is to say nothing of executions and reprisals for incompetence. I don’t envy third world military “scientists”.
Luke
Chapter 18
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- He then addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else.
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- "Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector.
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- The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, 'O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity--greedy, dishonest, adulterous--or even like this tax collector.
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- I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.'
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- But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, 'O God, be merciful to me a sinner.'
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- I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted."