Glorification After Death
Friday, June 23, 2006
If you take a look at the Lebanese and their history, you'll actually find something amazing, and even shocking. Every political person who dies suddenly becomes one of the most virtuous persons that has ever lived. All what was said about him before he did were lies, and all that shall be said about him after he dies should be absolutely a step closer to his sanctification.
Now I am certainly not denying that Lebanon has never had its fair share of people who fallen for this country because of the positive things they had planned for this country, but I certainly do acknowledge that they were not all saints, and I look for the truth and not the "He-said,she-said" through other means to see if I can accept the reason of why that mistake or step was done.
But that certainly is not what most of the Lebanese like to do. Most of the Lebanese suddenly have lots of positive things to say about a person who just died, and most of them forget what a person actually did before he did. This does not mean that we should disrespect the dead, but there is no need to glorify every single person that is killed in this country. I will not give examples, because we've had a lot of examples in the past year. It's always when we forget the past, and somehow, create a great future for those same people, forgetting those who truly died on the frontlines for Lebanon. Why not name a street for every martyr the fell during the Lebanese war?
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