Subversion of justice continues and many more sons of men are “crucified”. Afzal Guru is one of the recent instances of such perversion of justice and crucifixion.
The religious fundamentalists and nationalists who looked for a scapegoat to vent their malicious hatred, the law and order forces that connived with the powers that be to frame him, the judges of the highest court in India who finally made a verdict to hang Afzal to appease the “collective conscience of society”, the general public who had no qualm in hanging this man in the name of national security and patriotism, and the media that made a scoop out of this perversion of justice and celebrated his hanging and those law and order forces that clandestinely executed his hanging are condemned in the cross of Christ.
We are all implicated in the cross of Christ for our active collaboration with an unjust society, our apathy in the face of gross violations of human rights and natural justice, our opting for expediency when we should have squarely dealt with realities, bending our knees before wealth and power and indulging in religious exercise and piety that are meant to hood wink the public.
The religious fundamentalists and nationalists who looked for a scapegoat to vent their malicious hatred, the law and order forces that connived with the powers that be to frame him, the judges of the highest court in India who finally made a verdict to hang Afzal to appease the “collective conscience of society”, the general public who had no qualm in hanging this man in the name of national security and patriotism, and the media that made a scoop out of this perversion of justice and celebrated his hanging and those law and order forces that clandestinely executed his hanging are condemned in the cross of Christ.We are all implicated in the cross of Christ for our active collaboration with an unjust society, our apathy in the face of gross violations of human rights and natural justice, our opting for expediency when we should have squarely dealt with realities, bending our knees before wealth and power and indulging in religious exercise and piety that are meant to hood wink the public.
How often Christians realize that they are followers of the one who was condemned a criminal and a traitor? Our rituals associated with the Holy Week can only mask this reality of the cross and make it more aseptic.