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."
Pittsburgh Catholic University Hosts Speaker Who Says Whites Must ‘Crucify Their Whiteness’
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Miguel De La Torre
Robert Spencer : New in PJ Media: Apparently in the view of some Leftist Christians, Jesus loves some
of the little children, but by no means all of them.
Carlow University,
an ostensibly Catholic institution, recently offered their hapless
students the opportunity to attend an event entitled “Rejecting White Christianity,” featuring a speaker who denounced Trump supporters as un-Christian and called on white
people to “crucify their whiteness.” When challenged as to why they
hosted this divisive, racist, pseudo-Christian nonsense, the university
invoked the principle of free speech and free inquiry that has seldom,
if ever, resulted in their inviting any dissidents from the Leftist
agenda to speak on campus.
To be sure, those familiar with Carlow University could have seen this coming. The university describes itself as
first and foremost “a diverse and inclusive community” and only
secondarily as “rooted in the traditions of the Catholic faith.” The
word “diverse” appears three times on the “Carlow Identity” page, and
the university assures us that it is “a values-driven organization with a
deep commitment to service, social justice, equity and inclusion.”
That deep commitment led Carlow to host Miguel De La Torre, a
professor of social ethics and Latinx studies at the Iliff School of
Theology in Denver, Colorado, and the author, coauthor, or editor of no
fewer than 39 books, including such classics of Christian thought as Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers; Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting A Badass Christianity; Faith and Resistance in the Age of Trump; Liberating Sexuality: Justice Between the Sheets; and The Quest for the Historical Satan.
Although Donald Trump has been out of the Oval Office for over
fourteen months now (it seems like fourteen years, after all the havoc
the Biden administration has inflicted upon the land), he is still very
much on Miguel De La Torre’s uncolonized mind. The good professor began
his diatribe at Carlow by
excommunicating followers of the former president: “When eight out of
ten white evangelicals voted for a person who is completely against
everything Christianity stands for, I don’t know what Christianity they
are practicing. But I want nothing to do with that Christianity.”
De La Torre then explained the difference between what he called
“white theology and ethics” and “Latinx ethics,” helpfully adding that
when he excoriated all things white, he meant whiteness not in terms of
race, but an “ontological concept.” Oh. De La Torre, who is to all
appearances white, continued, “Those of us who are colored, some of us
can also be white.” This kind of thinking is what gets you a job as a
professor of social ethics and Latinx studies. But De La Torre also
tossed Whitey a bone: “But the good news is there is salvation … We have
to crucify our colonized minds, and for our white brothers and sisters,
they need to crucify their whiteness.”
