‘There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell’: Putin, certainly, but what about Americans?

The Ukrainian ambassador lays down the gauntlet


Does Ukraine hold the moral compass now?


… what about Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld?


I always wondered about purgatory from the time that the nuns taught us about it at St. Brigid’s School. 


“Certainly, that is better than going to hell,” I probably thought. 


“But, how long would I be there?”


Crazy thoughts in a crazy time. 


So, when the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations clearly informed Vladimir Putin and his cohorts of their eternal life, I began to wonder about other people who had started unjust, evil, immoral wars. 


Such as the Americans responsible for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that resulted in between 185 thousand and 208 thousand “violent” deaths. Not included in these are the 25 to 50 thousand innocent women and children who were killed or approximately 40 thousand who suffered debilitating injuries. 


Can people who inflict that kind of death ever be forgiven?


Sergly Kyslytsya does not think so. 


Speech to the U.N.


The Ukrainian ambassador was blunt in what he told the United Nations,


There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell.


Reuters on Twitter, February 23, 2022


Personally, I think that he is right. I know that God and Jesus talked about everyone being forgiven for his or her sins. However, is that really the case with people like Hitler and Stalin — and now Putin?


American warmongers

And what about the American leaders who led the country into a war with a sovereign nation that had no weapons of mass destruction or nuclear program, as Bush and Cheney et.al had promised?


I think that people like the clerical child abusers and war mongers can only be forgiven if they publicly repent and then do penance for what they have done. 


This does not include five Our Fathers and five Hail Mary’s and an act of contrition, like the Catholic Church propounds. 


That is nonsense. 


I know where Putin will spend eternity, but what of George W. Bush who has expressed no contrition for killing as many as half a million people. 


He probably still calls himself “Pro-Life.”


God is just, but there are limits, and without a public contrition, I think that the Ukrainian ambassador may be right. 

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