Comparative Religion

Father Abdou is elderly and walks with difficulty. The attackers stole $30,000 from his house, his wife’s gold, his passport, and all of the church’s possessions down to the toilet seats and air conditioning units. He is not alone. Many Coptic leaders have had to flee their parishes in the days following last week’s crackdown.

In a Catholic church in the village of Mallawi, one hour away from Minya’s capital, Father Malak Girgis Ishaaq sought refuge with his Muslim neighbors when at least four masked men with beards entered his church and set fire to it with cans of petrol. A decapitated statue of the Virgin Mary is among the few items that remain standing. Muslims and Christians from the neighborhood, some armed with guns, eventually drove the attackers out, and put out the blaze.

A church down the road was not so lucky. At noon on Aug. 17, embers still burned in the remains of Mallawi’s Evangelical Church, as young men from the local Christian community climbed over heaps of charcoal and rubble to brick up the entrances of the structure. They said the bricks were to ensure that no one filled the holy space with rubbish or turned it into a mosque, as they say happened in a nearby town.

So sorry, but our reaction is "Where is your Gawd now?" And where was Allah, when the Moron Brotherhood thugs who worship him were thrown out? We should find out which gawd the Egyptian Army sucks up to. Unlike the two losers mentioned above, & their imaginary brother the gawd of the Jews (Now that guy is a royal fuck-up. How's he still have a gig? Jewish people may not be as smart as they'd have you believe.) the Army's gawd seems competent & able to protect the interests of its supplicants.

Back a winner, people. Stop killing each other in the names of punk-ass gawds that never had your back for one damn minute. Or keep killing each other, but shut up about it; no one here can or will help you. Tiananmen Square changed everything for the Chinese people, didn't it? (And for the American people, made redundant once corporations were convinced that China would do whatever was necessary to keep labor under control.)