Violating the Saints – NYTimes.com

She gets that we can no longer politicize religion and hope that it stays “safe.”

Violating the Saints – NYTimes.com.

There is no poetry in the aftermath of a bombing. After the initial fireball, there’s choking black smoke, people running everywhere, screaming in fear and panic. There is blood, and body parts strewn on the ground. Rescue workers must claw their way inside, facing searing heat and burning wreckage, to find what little remains of both the victims and the perpetrators.