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."
Muslim ‘Officials’ Deny Persecuted Christians Refuge in Europe “Why doesn’t your Jesus save you?” October 13, 2022 by Raymond Ibrahim
Friday, October 14, 2022
Front Page : The same Germany that took in over a million Muslim migrants in 2015, and ten thousand non-vetted Afghans
in 2021—all people who, by definition, could not be experiencing
religious persecution back home as they themselves were Muslim—has refused asylum
to a Muslim convert to Christianity, even though one of his relatives
was tortured and murdered for the same “crime” of apostasy in his native
Iran.
Going under the pseudonym of “Hassan” to protect his identity, the
44-year-old applied for asylum in Germany in 2018. The authorities
rejected his testimony on their belief that no one would convert to
Christianity after seeing and experiencing what happens to converts in
Iran. In this, they were referring to Hassan’s brother-in-law, whom
Hassan said introduced him to Christianity, and was later arrested and
killed in prison for participating in a house church. German
authorities concluded that it was “not particularly likely” that Hassan
would become—certainly not remain—a Christian after such an event, as
the murder would have a “deterrent effect” on any other would-be
converts, namely Hassan.
After Germany closed its doors to him, Hassan took his case to the
European Court of Human Rights; it, too, recently denied his appeal. The
apostate from Islam is now set to be deported back to the Islamic
Republic of Iran, an act that seems the equivalent of sentencing him to
death, or at the very least, abandoning him to persecution and
imprisonment.
Before German authorities rejected his request for asylum, Hassan had offered the following testimonial to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees:
My wife’s brother had become a different person by becoming a
Christian. We wanted to see if we would get this feeling when we became
Christians…. I had had many problems in Iran…I had many [religious]
questions, but I was not allowed to ask them. When I asked questions, I
was beaten at school. This led me to want to know which God I was
facing. One day my brother-in-law said to me and my wife that he had
good news. There is a treasure, there is a living God, Jesus Christ, we
are His children and not His slaves…He said there is a free salvation
available.
As mentioned, his brother-in-law would go on to be imprisoned for his
house church activities, and finally murdered for his faith in jail.
