After the tragic shooting at the Fort Hood Army base, we’re all wondering why Nidel Hasan’s classmates didn’t realize that he would betray them and get him some help before it was too late. This is what a recent Fox news article had to say about that:
A classmate of Hasan, meanwhile, told FoxNews.com that the warning signs were all there — the justification of homicide bombings; spewing anti-American hatred; efforts to reach out to Al Qaeda — but that the military treated Hasan with kid gloves, even after giving him a poor performance review.
This kind of oversight isn’t new. 2,000 years ago, the greatest betrayer in all of history was overlooked as well. Could Judas, one of the twelve in Jesus’ intimate circle, have plotted Christ’s betrayal without warnings that he was disconnecting from the group? How could they have missed the fact that their fellow disciple was straying badly?
An earlier debate on who would be the “greatest in heaven” suggests that other things had taken precedence over the well-being of their friend. They were more concerned with their own promotion and legacy. Christ’s response to their selfish question was to hold a small child on His lap and say that unless we become as humble and gentle as that child, none of us will enter the kingdom of heaven.
Nor will we have a hope of preventing these murderous rampages in the future.
