The preachers of death are having a field day over the disaster at the Love Parade open air rave event that killed 21 in the German city of Duisburg.

The Love Parade used to be a giant party of dancing people on a vast street in Berlin for many years, until the city of Berlin, deeply in debt, pulled the plug on it. This year the city of Duisburg wanted to host the Love Parade, hoping to boost the town’s image.

A fatal mistake in the planing stage let to a disaster on the big day. There was only one tunnel leading to the event area that could not provide enough space for all the people leaving and entering at one time. The crowd jamed the entrance shut. There was no entering or leaving only pushing and less and less space by the minute. When the crowd dissolved there were deaths and many wounded.

First responders did an incredible job. Young men and women who were looking for an afternoon of dancing and fun found themselves performing CPR on strangers who had the same plans but not such luck.

In the following week came the late responders. Politicians were offering their condolences and the public found more then enough people to blame in Duisburg’s city hall and the company that organized the event.

In the church service a week later, Hannelore Kraft, the recently elected president of the German state of North Rhein-Westphalia, where Duisburg is located in, who’s son happened to be one of the spectators of the Love Parade too, stepped up to the front of the church, where they worship the human sacrifice of one Jesus Christ. With her voice echoing from the walls, she told us in what the press later called a moving speech that the father of one of the girls who died at the Love Parade said to her, the violent death of his daughter could have a purpose to it, if we all reconsidered our value system.

In the eyes of religion, there is always a purpose to death. Even life itself has the purpose to achieve a good kind of death – earn your wings and a harp, the seventy two virgins.

Wherever there is death, the leaders of religion are there to tell you its meaning. Where we see the innocent victims and sometimes the murders that took their own lives as well, they see the sinners and the blessed martyrs.

The Love Parade was a revolt against creation, and, as it is related to sinning, it is related to a judgemental and punishing God. These quotes are courtesy of Andreas Laun, bishop of Salzburg. He released a commentary paper entitled Love Parade, sinning, and God’s punishment, where he tries to knock out possible criticism early by stating it was nobody’s business to judge the dead, before he goes on to judge the dead, and the living of course.

He’s got an answer for you, if you want to know, if one can believe in a punishing God. His answer is another question, Can you believe in a God that makes no difference between the victim and the perpetrator? The world of the religious only knows these two states of being, and they’ll force you to choose.

As you are reading this, you have reached the part of this post when religious people will argue, You don’t get it. He’s trying to make a theological argument. God punishes you out of love, is what Laun says. God wants to get back mankind.

There are so many problems with all of this. The most important being that, because there is no God, theology is not a science, no, not even of the humanities. After the death penalty was carried out, the ones who were really innocent are not cleared for eternal bliss by God. They are just dead.

Mr. Laun has a message for people who dare criticise his assessment of a punishing God. God also punishes is a concept Muslims understand, he says, and they wouldn’t take questioning God’s punishment as easy as he does. Sounds like a death threat to me. The catholic threatens the use of Muslims.

For some reasons God doesn’t kill all the sinners out there. He got some from the Love Parade, but there are so much more everywhere. He works in mysterious ways, one of which is sending us humans on his holy missions. The sinners who slipped through his fingers are for us to punish. In the name of the father the son and the holy ghost.

Not in humanity’s name anymore!