"We must kill the infidel! There is no living with him. He is not like us."
No eyes disagreed that looked upon the infidel. "This must be done. Only death will suffice. The good must be preserved." The verdict was final. The infidel had other thoughts.
"So anyone who disagrees with your outlook has to die? Savages all!"
"You are a threat to us. You must be destroyed."
"But I see you as the threat. Who are you to judge my actions?"
"With you, everything will be destroyed. Our lives, our way of life, all would be gone."
"I don't give a goddam about your way of life! I stand for the truth."
"The truth resides with us."
"Might makes right, huh? Majority rules? Sometimes it's just one person who is right and if you'd listen to that one person you just might learn something."
"We know what we know. The issue is not open for debate."
"Closed-minded dogma is the sign of a man who is out of touch with the truth!"
"We know we are right and you are wrong. These are our laws and they are holy and inviolable. There can be no debate."
"Of course you don't want debate! Might find out you're wrong that way! You are not open to the truth, that's why you have no future!"
"You speak of yourself, not us. Carry out the sentence."
***
After his head was chopped off a small girl was curious. "Mommy, why did they kill him?"
"He was caught trying to poison the town well. Everyone would have died."
"Why would he do that?"
"He said because he was doing God's will."
"But what if he really was?"
"Don't worry. God doesn't want us dead. Only that man did."
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"We must kill the infidel! There is no living with him. He is not like us."
No eyes disagreed that looked upon the infidel. "This must be done. Only death will suffice. The good must be preserved." The verdict was final. The infidel had other thoughts.
"So anyone who disagrees with your outlook has to die? Savages all!"
"You are a threat to us. You must be destroyed."
"But I see you as the threat. Who are you to judge my actions?"
"With you, everything will be destroyed. Our lives, our way of life, all would be gone."
"I don't give a goddam about your way of life! I stand for the truth."
"The truth resides with us."
"Might makes right, huh? Majority rules? Sometimes it's just one person who is right and if you'd listen to that one person you just might learn something."
"We know what we know. The issue is not open for debate."
"Closed-minded dogma is the sign of a man who is out of touch with the truth!"
"We know we are right and you are wrong. These are our laws and they are holy and inviolable. There can be no debate."
"Of course you don't want debate! Might find out you're wrong that way! You are not open to the truth, that's why you have no future!"
"You speak of yourself, not us. Carry out the sentence."
***
After his head was chopped off a small girl was curious. "Mommy, why did they kill him?"
"He was going to expose our poisoning the town's well. That would have ended our profits from oil fracking."
"Why would he do that?"
"He said because he was doing God's will."
"But what if he really was?"
"Don't worry. God doesn't want our profits to end. Only that man did."
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