Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in the following
conversation are those of the book's author and do not necessarily
reflect the opinions of LifeSiteNews.
September 1, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Journalist Maike Hickson conducted an interview with author George Neumayr on his new book, The Political Pope. Neumayr offers insights into communist influences on Pope Francis.
Maike Hickson: Throughout your book, you make
references to Pope Francis' relationship with communism or with certain
communists in particular. Could you describe for us in general his
attitude toward communism?
George Neumayr: He tends to speak of communism in
benign terms. He told the Italian press that he wasn't "offended" if
people call him a communist since he has “met many Marxists in my life
who are good people." Another time he said, "I must say that communists
have stolen our flag," because "the flag of the poor is Christian." Past
popes, who recognized the power of communism to enslave the poor, would
have found such comments very puzzling.
MH: You write in your book that Pope Francis is
sympathetic and supportive of the "radical political agenda of the
global left" and you call him an "ecclesiastical equivalent of Barack
Obama." What are specific topics that Pope Francis is promoting that
remind you of a worldview which is sympathetic with communist ideas?
GN: Hardline leftists used to say that they dreamed
of a world without popes. But now they gush about Pope Francis. The
radical academic Cornel West summed up the reason why: "I love who he
is, in terms of what he says, and the impact of his words on progressive
forces around the world." In other words, Pope Francis has turned the Vatican into a bully
pulpit for the left's favorite causes, including: open borders, gun
control, climate-change activism, the abolition of the death penalty and
lifetime imprisonment, and the socialism of central planners. This is why the 1960s radical Tom Hayden said his election "was more miraculous, if you will, than the rise of Barack Obama."
