I forget which church father/theologian it was
who taught that Heaven was watching the suffering
in Hell, the rationale being that whilst watching
others being mercilessly tormented
you can't be being tortured the way that
those who you eternally are being tormented.
Another rationale being that in Roman times,
when the populous were ruled by being given bread
and made to attend the circus at the amphitheatre
where the main meal to watch could easily be a lion
mauling a Christian to death. Any Christian viewer
of such a spectacle would be understandably relieved
and thanking their maker that they were not the one
in the ring, providing such a bloody and coarse entertainment.
I have a feeling that as Israel tears into Palestine
like a hungry lion tearing into a Roman Christian,
the world media is going to be divided again
into those who will watch frozen with detachment
and thank their maker that for viewing such conflict
they can feel relieved that the not in what they view,
and the numbers that see such conflict as pointless,
and as sickening to the soul, 'beyond being news'.
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