Kalashnikov, the man who invented the AK -47, has died at
the ripe old age of 94. At the age of 91 he found god and got himself baptised.
Just in time, as he wondered and wrote to Kirill I of Moscow, the Patriarch of
the Russian Orthodox Church: “I
keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives,
then can it be that I... a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for
their deaths?"
Fortunately, the Church came to his rescue with the
following response: “The Church has a very definite position: when weapons
serve to protect the Fatherland, the Church supports both its creators and the
soldiers who use it."
Like his colleagues, be they priests, rabbis or imams,
Kirill knows his role in society, which includes lending his support to the use
of weapons.
The small problem is that everyone has a different
fatherland and thus more than 100 million Kalashnikovs have been sold by Russia
worldwide.
thats sound familier... its good to die for our land.
ReplyDeleteIch lese immer Deine "Weltbetrachtungen und Kommentare" mit grossem Interesse und - between brackets - Vergnuegen, vor allem weil sie mit wenigen Worten ins Schwarze treffen, mitunter von Deinem trockenen Humor begleitet, der allerdings manchal dem Sarkasmus weichen muss: Kalasnikov... Simon Peres!!
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