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."
I, a non-Jew, stand with Eric Zemmour on Islam, not the church
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Giulio Meotti
Hat tip RoP : The suicide of French Catholicismhas reached the point where there is a Moslem prayer corner in the 2nd largest church in France. Op-ed.
A photo of a sign indicating the presence of a "space of silence for
Muslim prayer" in the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris has aroused the
ire of Catholic faithful and conservative commentators.
This is the
second largest church in Paris after Notre Dame, but the most important
for Catholic worship, where Dan Brown filmed “The Da Vinci Code” and
which in March 2019 was set on fire. To relaunch the
controversy, Gilbert Collard, supporter of Eric Zemmour,wrote: "We await
the opening in the Great Mosque of Paris of a space of prayer so that
Christians can pray for their brothers persecuted in the East!".
It
was a meeting "around the figure of Mary". There was also the
recitation of the Fatiha, the opening sura of the Koran. Imams announced
Mohammed. Even important personalities of the French Church made
themselves heard, such as Mathieu Raffray, professor of Philosophy at
St. Thomas in Rome: "Conclusion of the 'Islamic-Christian' meeting in
Saint Sulpice: a dance with teenagers in niqabs in the choir. Sadness
and incomprehension in the face of so much ridicule ".
I don't understand this much masochism ...
I
don't understand why, for the first time in 700 years, Islamic songs
and suras had to resound in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in
Florence under Brunelleschi's Dome. I
do not understand why, in the Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in
Rome, the Koran was heard at the ceremony for Fr Jacques Hamel, killed
by the ISIS terrorists whose trial is being held in these days in Paris,
where they defend the Sharia law.
I don't understand why
Anglican bishops in England proposed that the coronation ceremony of the
next king of England should open with the Koran.
