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."
Buried Alive: Persecution of Christians, August 2021 by Raymond Ibrahim September 26, 2021 at 5:00 am
Thursday, September 30, 2021
In Lebanon, Muslim supporters of Hezbollah threatened the Maronite
Church patriarch, Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rai (pictured), with death
after he criticized the terrorist organization.
After sexually harassing a
Christian sanitation worker, a Muslim supervisor threatened to file
blasphemy charges — which carry a maximum death penalty — against her
unless she withdraws her complaints against him." — Morning Star News, August 31, 2021,
Pakistan.
"Most sanitation workers in Pakistan are Christian.... Christian
sanitation workers are routinely called derogatory terms... and face
sexual harassment, discrimination, nonpayment of salaries, irregular
work contracts and extortion by senior officers...." — Morning Star News, August 31, 2021, Pakistan.
"[T]he Taliban are going door-to-door in Afghanistan, executing
Christians on the spot.... Taliban militants are even pulling people off
public transport and killing them on the spot if they're Christians....
The Taliban have spies and informants everywhere." — Religion News
Service, August 17, 2021, Afghanistan.
"Women who disappear and are never recovered must live an
unimaginable nightmare. The large majority of these women are never
reunited with their families or friends because police response in Egypt
is dismissive and corrupt. There are countless families who report that
police have either been complicit in the kidnapping or... bribed into
silence." — Coptic Solidarity, 2020, Egypt.
Muslims murdered a man for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity by burying him alive. — Morning Star News, August 26, 2021, Uganda.
"What you have witnessed happening to your husband today is for
the disobedience of your husband not heeding the advice given by the
family that he should return to Islam, since Islam cannot tolerate
infidels." According to report, "Police have taken no action regarding
the killing." — Morning Star News, August 26, 2021, Uganda.
"Islam is now invading South Sudan. They're saying South Sudan is
a strategic place and... the gate[way] to Africa [so that] Islam can go
to all of Africa." — Local Christian, Vatican News, August 19, 2021, South Sudan.
