Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
A Christian man has been told that he can no longer display his banner,
which declares nothing more than āThe blood of Jesus Christ.ā Whether
this ban on signage is a new law that will be applied to any and all
posters being hung by every religious denomination, as well as the rest
of the speakers who pontificate at the park, remains to be seen.
As a victim of homophobic abuse from a bunch of Muslim regulars at
Speakersā Corner, which I reported to the police at the time of
occurrence, I was told that had the death threats against me happened
just metres from where I was standing (outside the park), then the
police could make arrests. Speakersā Corner, as it happens, is outside
the law of the UK, according to the Met police. Anything goes, they told
me. Anything except a declaration of an allegiance to Jesus. Call for
jihad in the name of Muhammad and itās fine, but make calls for people
to come together in Christ and thatās a step too far for the cops in
Hyde Park.
This isnāt the first time weāre seeing double standards by the police in relation to Christian preachers here in the UK. Three men were arrested and charged
in Bristol for the offence of reading from the Bible on a public
street. Meanwhile, dawah stalls litter a large number of streets in
London, from Dalston Junction to Woolwich, over to Kilburn and beyond.
There is a permanent one set up in Leicester Square which blasts music
(noise pollution) and hands out free Qurans and bad advice. These men
never get tackled by police or shut down or asked to move along. They
certainly donāt get arrested.
Lee Rigbyās killers were free to walk
around Greenwich park distributing extremist Islamic material with no
complaints from the public, and no arrests made by the police. The three
Christian men in Bristol, however, were mocked by the public, and the
police were applauded and cheered when they made the arrests. Itās a
scene that replicates the mocking of Jesus during his arrest, trial and
punishment on his way to the cross.
The arresting of Christian preachers can be contrasted with the way
the UK police interact with Muslim preachers on the streets. The police
generally stand there, impotent, whilst taking a belly and an earful of
verbal abuse from yet another angry Muslim screaming āAllahu akbarā at
them. The police, in these instances, in a bid to save face in the eyes
of the public, are shamed into making a reluctant arrest.
And any arrest of a Muslim preacher is not made without the fear of
violent reprisal towards the arresting officers. The cops know this, and
so they pick on the easy religious targets such as truly peaceful
Christians.
The banners that are normally on display in the very small section of
Hyde Park that is known as Speakersā Corner generally verge on the
ridiculous. The Blood of Jesus Christ pales in comparison to the rest of
the posters and banners which generally tell of the end of the world
being nigh, advocate for socialism, claim that meat is murder, offer
free psychic healing and hugs, as well as tell tales of extraterrestrial
life forms sending radio signals to interfere with our brains. The most
offensive sign that Iāve seen at Speakersā Corner, and on the majority
of dawah stalls, are those that tell me Jesus is a Muslim.
No!!!!!!Jesus is
not a Muslim. As a Christian, I would not get away with putting up a
poster stating that Muhammad was a Christian. Iād be met by a braying
mob before being swiftly arrested. The Blood of Jesus is not an
offensive statement; it is the very heart of Christianity. The Catholic
doctrine of transubstantiation states that we drink it in the Communion
wine, with Christās body being found and ingested in the wafer.
The Christ energy invigorates the Western world. You could be
forgiven for thinking that He is the blueprint for liberalism and
leftist ideals ā love thy neighbour, welcome the other, communal eating
with outcasts, giving of your own wealth to help those in need, and
reserving judgement of others whilst here on earth, but His words and
deeds are different from big government taking your money from you and
redistributing it without your permission. All of that just for
starters.
The blood of Jesus is understood to be salvificto the
Christian mind. It is healing and redemptive. Why is Jesusā death
becoming a dangerous thing to the UK police? Itās baffling to me why our
authorities and the general public seem to be siding with Islam rather
than Christianity.
What has gone wrong with us as a people and a nation
that the blood of Christ is becoming a dirty thing in the eyes and minds
of the public?
