
Originally Posted by
carmicaeld
ok, so, basically, a serial killer is holy, or shall i say, a holy serial killer, amiryt?
[1] holy - devoted to the service of God, the church, or religion; exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness; venerated as or as if sacred.
[2] serial killer - someone who kills for fun; may or may not have affiliations with religion.
[3] holy serial killer - someone devoted to the service of God, the church, or religion, exalted or worthy of praise, venerated as if sacred, AND kills for fun.
and, NO, we're not talking about DIGNITY as beings but about a person's HOLINESS.
Ok forget about DIGINITY. My premise again is that GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE AND LIKENESS (ESSENCE) Therefore, MAN IS BASICALLY GOOD AND HOLY for we come from GOD!
What we call Sacred or Holy here is our SPIRITUAL ESSENCE OR our TRUE IDENTITY. A Serial Killer is a person whose essence is basically GOOD or HOLY but when he killed someone it does not necessarily mean that his TRUE IDENTITY or SPIRITUAL ESSENCE was lost. He was not defined entirely by his behavior or action as EVIL only the behavior and the action in itself is EVIL. Like the SUN (GOD) whose rays are US and when the clouds or darkness (SIN or EVIL ACTION) is about to cover the SUN, it does not mean the LIGHT (ESSENCE) was gone. It was only temporarily covered. The rays (US) are still one with the SUN(GOD)!
We don't exaggerate matters here. We don't call holy serial killer. It is understandable that what is holy is within. Serial Killer is just a label or our judgment to the person who committed the crime but has nothing to do with his REAL IDENTITY (SPIRITUAL ESSENCE).

Holiness for me has nothing to do with being religious as what you have defined.It is much more deeper than that. Holiness for me is our SPARK with THE DIVINE!