Sadam – Death of a Godlike Man

Well, they hung Sadam today and the world is better for it. The man was definitely evil but as with other tyrants he was so Godlike. He was a totalitarian ruler who demanded he be worshipped and was quick to kill individuals or groups that failed to do so. He had little regard for human life. He liked images and icons of himself to be displayed and building erected in his honor – see a pattern here yet. We see this pattern whether it is Stalin, Mao or virtually ant other dictator.
If we look at their most famous brethren, Hitler, we see even more similarities to the biblical God. His Chosen people, the Aryan Race. His cross, the swastika, and of course the flames of hell in his concentration camps make his kingdom on earth a more evident plagiarism of the biblical model. He even had his Archangels, the Gestapo, and for his most faithful followers the Heaven of the Nazi Party. The more a man patterns his behavior after that of the biblical God the more evil we consider him. Imagine what we would think of a leader who behaved as God did in the case of Adam and Eve. Punish not only the perpetrator of a crime, but all their descendents for all time. Going back to the Hitler story, Jewish Rabbi’s have been asked why God sent this miraculously charismatic man to exterminate so many of His chosen people. Their answer, the Jewish people’s faith had been slipping so God sent Hitler as a just punishment. Sounds fair to me. The biblical God is the ultimate example of “Do as I say, not as I do”. What I will never understand is why people choose Him as an object of worship.