Saddam's Deplorable Treatment!

I see that the big names on the political world stage have strongly voiced thier condemnation of the deplorable nature of Saddam Hussein's execution. The mocking, the jeering and shouting - no doubt spitting and profanities were in the air as well. A dingey execution room and such a humiliating and degrading form of execution.

But there's another side to this story isn't there? Wasn't Saddam a war criminal? Didn't he kill thousands of his own innocent people? You could be forgiven for thinking that Saddam in some way deserves to die in such a way, in the light of the misdeeds he committed.

I wonder how many of the people so vocally condemning this act would have been so vocal two millenia ago, when the humble carpenter of Nazareth was so degradingly and humiliatingly tortured and killed, in an atmosphere of even more venemous spitting and jeering - and for what? - He didn't deserve any of it. Not many of them I don't think.

I wonder why that is?

"But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." 2 Cor 4: 3 - 4.