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."
The Rhine Flows Into the Amazon - The pope’s silly synod is an attempt by German heretics to turn the Church into an annex of the UN.
Monday, October 14, 2019
Cardinal Gerhard Müller
Spectator : Pope Francis spent a brief period of
his Jesuit formation in Germany.
He was sent there to get a doctorate in
theology, but, finding the work tedious and feeling homesick, he
returned to Buenos Aires. He once told a fellow Jesuit that studying
“fundamental theology” is “boring” — a bizarre attitude for a churchman
that explains his intellectually slipshod pronouncements.
Not that Francis doesn’t revere German theologians. He does,
exceedingly so, particularly heretical ones. During the conclave that
elected him, he stayed in a room across from Walter Kasper, the German
cardinal famous for his project to liberalize and Protestantize the
Church from top to bottom. Jorge Bergoglio said Kasper handed him his
book on mercy — an absurdly heretical tract about how the Church needs
to adopt the world’s version of morality on LGBT issues and the like.
Bergoglio said Kasper’s book provided him with some delightful reading
before he fell asleep. Shortly after he became pope, he singled out
Kasper as one of his “favorite” theologians.
Francis is also close with Cardinal Cláudio Hummes of Brazil, who is the chief organizer of the Pan-Amazon Synod.
Hummes, an outspoken socialist and opponent of traditional teaching, is
the son of a German-Brazilian father and a German mother. He is one of
the architects of the Latin American–German alliance to revolutionize
the Church — what Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former head of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, calls the “wrecking ball”
the synod will release upon the faithful, as reported by LifeSiteNews.
That’s no exaggeration. Look at all the new bishops and cardinals,
preening at the synod under the pope’s supportive gaze, who now say
openly that they favor LGBT rights, divorce and remarriage, female
deacons, even female priests — the same cardinals who shrugged at the
news this week that nuns are hearing confessions and presiding at
weddings in South America, the same cardinals who consider it a mere
trifle that the pope would tell his Boswell, the doddering Eugenio
Scalfari, that Jesus was just an “exceptional” man. (The Vatican still
hasn’t issued a convincing clarification about that astounding part of
the Scalfari interview.)
