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What does it matter what happens to your body once your dead?
Funeral and burial services are for the family of the deceased. Was the family directly accountable for the actions of their relative? If not then they shouldn't be punished.
Islam forbids cremation; you can't cremate Muslims. Neither can members of Eastern Orthodox denominations. Even the Catholic Church and LDS still discourage it. Judaism is split on it, but most if not all Orthodox Jews see it as forbidden by halakha and many more liberal Jews may eschew it because of its associations with the Holocaust.
It's not as widely accepted as many American Protestants assume it to be.
Amonette said the burial was arranged by Martha Mullen, a 48-year-old Richmond resident who independently contacted the cemetery after hearing reports on National Public Radio that dozens of burial grounds had refused to give space to Tsarnaev's body. Mullen did not return a phone call from The Huffington Post on Friday.
In an interview with the Boston Globe, Mullen, a professional counselor who has a degree from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, said it was her Christian faith that motivated her to contact the cemetery to arrange the burial.
"Jesus says [to] love our enemies,” said Mullen. “So I was sitting in Starbucks and thought, maybe I’m the one person who needs to do something.”
Forgiveness does more to heal the victim than it helps the perpetrator.
WHy are tolerant liberals not tolerant enough to bury Tsaernav in Massachusetts?
Why ship him to a more conservative state? The liberal principle of indefinite welfare provided monies to the bombers which they then used and threw back in the face of the people who were watching the Marathon in person. Why run away from the tough situation liberals? Practice what you preach? Why couldnt you show that tolerance that you preach of and bury the animal that you helped fund in your own liberal state?
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WHy are tolerant liberals not tolerant enough to bury Tsaernav in Massachusetts?
