Dr Abbas Khan was murdered by the regime in Aleppo for providing medical aid to all. This inspired a young boy, Karim al-Jian, to study medicine himself. He paid tribute to Abbas Khan when he too graduated in medicine.
There’s just so much Invisible Magic Friend stuff to talk about in this. About how much he loves us, espcially murdered doctors trying to save lives.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BeuAphavV04DhvxQ3oG6L9HPGwLQzIyZ/view?usp=sharing
Platitude of the Day 
A perfect illustration of the way that religion denies the capacity of human beings to think and act individually, and turns reality on its head to claim all the good stuff for its IMFs.
Love, as described by the Rabbi this morning, is a quantifiable commodity, and only available from the IMF, who apparently dispenses it unconditionally to all its (or more often his) people. These, in turn, are required (if they want to be good, obedient servants of the IMF) to pass on this same commodity to others. At no point is there room for the possibility that love, in all its various manifestations, might be a human social quality or trait.
This distorts the truth, which is that human beings are capable of altruism and empathy, can hold a sense of duty and care towards others, and hold strong emotional ties to others, such as to support long-term personal relationships – no IMF needed.
The question is also begged – if the IMF ‘created man [men and women] in his own image’ then where do the less attractive traits of human behaviour come from?
There were many, many altruistic, caring people who sheltered Jews during the Nazi era, often putting their own lives in peril, or who took in Jewish refugees who had fled from persecution – but were their actions necessarily prompted by a belief that they had themselves received ‘love’ from an IMF and were under an obligation to pass it on? Or were they simply being humane?
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The god-creature’s love is widely touted as being “unconditional”. The first three of the Ten Commandments strongly imply otherwise:
1 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
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This is a great story of a personal tribute by a young doctor to the man who inspired him. I hope Karim al-Jian goes on to have a wonderful career in the NHS and inspires others to follow in his own footsteps.
Love is a human emotion that has nothing to do with the supernatural and Rabbi Wittenberg waffling on about “love that lasts forever” and such meaningless twaddle as “the shelter beneath god’s wings” takes away from the hard work and dedication that Karim has undertaken after arriving, as Wittenberg’s parents did, as a refugee in this welcoming country.
All doctors offer us their skills and humanity. Dr Abbas Khan lost his life doing so to a hateful regime in Syria and I pass on my condolences to his grieving family hoping that this story can bring them some comfort.
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If the IMF really does offer its unconditional love to all humankind, you’d think it would show that love from time to time. For instance, it might have done something to stop Dr Abbas Khan from being arrested or killed in the first place. Maybe it was listening to Syrian Muslims that week. Or maybe it was just sitting and watching, as usual. Why, it might as well not be around at all.
Graham highlights the true nature of the bargain that the inventors of the IMF thought fit to impose on their flock. I am reminded of a limerick:
There was an Old Man with a Beard
Who said: “I demand to be feared!
So call Me your God
And love Me, you sod!”
And Man did just that, which is weird.
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