What About the 72 Virgins?

What about the 72 Virgins?

This one has always intrigued me. The notion we hear that these mindless clowns who blow themselves up in an effort to kill innocent citizens or who fly airplanes into buildings and kill thousands of people they never knew and with whom they had no quarrel, would get 72 virgins waiting for them when they make it to their ever-after. Looking at these ruffians in photos on the news and listening to the mindless drivel that inexplicably was compelling enough to make them kill themselves for someone else’s idea of what the world should be makes me wonder. What about the 72 virgins? What did they do? If virgins are a part of anyone’s version of heaven, which makes me wonder even more about the intellect of this crowd, what in the world did the virgins do in this life to make them a part of heaven for the likes of these homicidal morons? What kind of deal is that for them? What kind of philosophy or religion says that when you get to heaven you will have 72 virgins for your pleasure and your pleasure alone with no regard for their feelings in the matter? Is that what heaven is? What if the terrorists get there and the virgins are all ugly? Maybe the women are virgins for a reason. Maybe there will be 72 nuns with wooden rulers. It boggles my imagination to think that there are leaders in the Muslim community, that have successfully sold the vision that when their special followers ignite, detonate, or incinerate themselves and take a few others with them that they are entitled to 72 other human souls for their sole pleasure. I am sorry, but how easily led are these followers? I might have believed something like that in second grade, however, by the time I was old enough to know what a virgin was, I would have been able to sift out the shit from the shine-o-la. To quote Bear Bryant in the movie “Forrest Gump” – these have to be the stupidest people alive”. But I still can’t get it out of my head, that the supposed waiting virgins are the ones who really get skunked in this deal. It’s not like any of these beasts would have been a door prize even if they had half their brain engaged and had taken a bath once in a while. So the sales job to the homicide soldiers by the Al Qaeda leadership is this: do what I say and you have my personal guarantee that there will be 72 virgins waiting for you on the other side. Now go blow yourself up. I’m sorry, I would need a little more than Al Qeada’s good faith and credit to have me go do anything more than walk out to my driveway to get my newspaper. Are these people that gullible or are they just stupid. Once again from Forrest Gump, I guess stupid is as stupid does. Also, what happens after the 72 aren’t virgins anymore, do they have to stick around? Do they send in replacements? After all these geniuses just blew themselves up and are dead for eternity and all they have to show for it is 72 virgins who probably don’t want to be there in the first place. It seems to me like they would need to pace themselves if 72 virgins were all they got for their efforts. And imagine spending eternity with 72 women who weren’t too wild about their fate in the first place. They may still be virgins after all is said and done…and cranky ones at that. I sure would like to see the faces of these terrorist dumb-asses when they show up on the other side and get a one way ticket to hell punched instead of the 72 virgins. But then again, maybe eternity with 72 crabby women keeping company against their will with some slobs who couldn’t think of anything better to do than blow themselves up is exactly what these idiots deserve.