Cause and Effect

How we love to label people and events as if these could stand by themselves! Nothing in the universe stands by itself much less in our history.
Fathers eat sour grapes and if it should set our children’s teeth on edge (Eze 18:2) what do we make of it? The proverb is borne out to be true in the matter of human history. Consider the State Department vilified Saddam and found reasons to attack his country. What we often preach may be part of statecraft and it is acceptable to obfuscate( Afterall diplomats are sent to lie in the national interests) and we also seem to get away with it. What we often overlook is that some innocents are made to pay for our sins. Saddam’s hanging shall not be mourned for long. With his death a bloody chapter as far as international preoccupation with his ‘threat’ is concerned is closed. What connection could there be between Saddam’s execution and ‘accidental’ hanging of a fifth grader in Huston,Texas?
Background Newsitem:
Sergio Pelico was found dead Sunday in his apartment bedroom in the Houston-area city of Webster, said Webster police Lt. Tom Claunch. Pelico's mother told police he had previously watched a news report on Saddam's death.
"It appears to be accidental," Claunch said. "Our gut reaction is that he was experimenting."
An autopsy of the fifth-grader's body was pending.
Julio Gustavo, Sergio's uncle, said the boy was a happy and curious child. He said Sergio had watched TV news with another uncle on Saturday and asked the uncle about Saddam's death.
"His uncle told him it was because Saddam was real bad," Gustavo said. "He (Sergio) said, 'OK.' And that was it."
Conclusion: There is a cause-effect nexus but more of a loop than straight. So when we suffer think that it isn’t because of our sins or wrongdoing in th past (or previous birth) but it is simply because we are so connected with mankind.
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