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."
Our Communist Pope Francis Calls on Christians to Surrender Before Violence by Raymond Ibrahim
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
While there is life there is fight
Pope Francis, a leading advocate of Doormat Christianity,
is at it again, trying to reverse nearly two millennia of Christian
doctrine, by preaching total passivity—even against violent aggression.
On March 18, 2022, Francis declared before an audience that “A war is always—always!—the defeat of
humanity, always. We, the educated, who work in education, are defeated
by this war, because on another side we are responsible.”
So far, all well and good, if only because such lofty but impotent words are expected.
But then Francis went so far as to say that, “There is no such thing as a just war: they do not exist!”
That is a remarkably dangerous claim, one that, if embraced—as no doubt
it is by millions of similar naïve thinkers—can easily lead to their
annihilation. There is, indeed, such a thing as a just war—the only rational way of responding to unjust
wars—and it is firmly grounded in Christian, especially Catholic,
teaching, even if the head of the Catholic world argues otherwise.
In fact, from the very start, Christian theologians had concluded that
“the so called charity texts of the New Testament that preached
passivism and forgiveness, not retaliation, were firmly defined as
applying to the beliefs and behavior of the private person [and not the
state],” to quote historian Christopher Tyerman.
Christ himself—who called on his followers to render unto Caesar what
is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s (Matt. 22:21)—differentiated
between the social and spiritual realms. In the only recorded instance
of Jesus being slapped, he did not “turn the other cheek,” but rather
challenged his slapper to explain himself (John 18:22–23). The Nazarene
further praised a Roman centurion without calling on him to “repent” by
resigning from one of the most brutal militaries in world history (Matt. 8: 5–13). Similarly, when a group of soldiers asked John the Baptist
how they should repent, he advised them always to be content with their
army wages (Luke 3:14)—and said nothing about their quitting the Roman
army.
This is because there is “no intrinsic contradiction,” continues
Tyerman, “in a doctrine of personal, individual forgiveness condoning
certain forms of necessary public violence to ensure the security in
which, in St. Paul’s phrase, Christians ‘may lead a quiet and peaceable
life in all godliness and honesty’ (1 Tim. 2:2).” Or in the words of that chief articulator of Just War theory, Saint Augustine (354–430), “It is the injustice of the opposing side that lays
on the wise man the duty to wage war.” Crusades historian Jonathan
Riley-Smith elaborates:
