Many people think that war is just fine.
There are still many veterans who’ve been to war; but some of them are pretty old now.
Veterans for WW II are few and far between, but they’re out there, and their tales are vivid and horrible, and laced with honour and glory for having fought off the tyranny of the Japanese, German and Italian Fascists; though they aren’t much of a political force anymore; in their day they were the fighting force that saved our world from the Fascist Global takeover. The
but still they aren’t much of a political force either, all said and done, given the physical and emotional handicaps that so many are suffering as a direct result of a useless and wasted deployment.
So who is driving this war in
The army is currently using footage of the flag raising at
So how do we, as a civilization garner enough momentum to even contemplate war,
let alone incite one!?
Mankind seems to have been waging war from the get go, and while the growth of civilization has produced some tremendous things far removed from warfare,
war and the illusion of glory, both seem to have gotten into our genetic code.
These failures are in our genes.
I say that figuratively of course.
There is no ‘war’ gene,
but culturally there would seem to be sometimes.
The Greeks, the Romans. Great cultures turned to ashes by war.
The Greeks overextended themselves and met their undoing because of it.
Likewise the Romans.
I’ll bet neither of then ever thought that they would collapse one day. In their glory and conquest do you think they ever doubted their sovereignty ?
Yet everyone knows that
Hello-o-o-o-o, are we missing something here ?
How can any culture still believe that war is the way to go??
Haven’t we learned ANYTHING ????
WHO are the people espousing war?
How do we identify the war mongers?
Well, let’s see.
There’s the military; they live for war.
The weapons manufacturers; they profit from war.
Oh, and the Catholic church; parts of it preach war.
I’ve never heard a Hindu saying, we must kill heathens to cleanse the earth.
Nor have I heard a Buddhist claiming that all who believe in Hinduism must die.
So where do the Righteous Right Wing Catholic militants get their inspiration?
Shall we start with the Crusades ?
Militant Christian soldiers donned their weapons and vanquished millions
in the name of God?!
Then the Christian missionaries took it upon themselves to spread ‘the word’,
based upon a misinterpretation of the Bible, and the misguided premise espoused by the Crusades, which had to some degree have been fortified by the Inquisition.
The precept that the Bible espouses is a righteous basis for exacting either salvation or condemnation upon the peoples of the earth, and that it is quite acceptable and quite honourable to do it in the name of God. In the back of human consciousness, the aggregate mind seems to have somehow been infiltrated with this notion.
Even today I find myself being cautious as to how I address this, while most certainly, outside of an alternate religious belief, I daresay any critique of the Catholic church in years gone by and even today could be met with a most violent end.
In
Or in the White House under Bush.
Still in all the Bible is a great achievement.
It’s a compilation of folk tales accumulated 16 hundred years after the fact, and written into literature by monks, who were at the time, virtually, the only people who were educated enough to read and write. One must realize that for all intents and purposes, the recollection of facts would have to have been sketchy at best.
The witnesses were all dead, and had been for a long time.
There was very little if any actual evidence other that the word of mouth stories
handed down through the generations.
The material was brilliantly accumulated and composed into, and rightfully so;
sections attributed to the various sources and named after them.
The Bible is a terrific effort, but in actuality, again, at best, it’s third hand information.
The essence is there, and the objective was met, but unfortunately the multitude of variations in practice today is clear testament to the fact that the Bible
has been turned into a book of many faces.
This isn’t really any surprise. The human mind, the ego, the memory, the inclination to embellish, the imagination and the talent of the scribes all influenced the writing of the Bible and the resultant interpretation of it. And the misuse of it.
Some of you may remember that classroom experiment where someone at the back of the class was given a message to pass on to the person at the next desk and so on until it reached the front of the room. The final message was completely alien to the original.
Thus the ‘Word of God’ was only as good as the man who wrote it.
I am a baptized Catholic, so, thank God, I’ll be going to heaven.
Isn’t that special.
Everyone else is going to hell.
If you fear God, and do exactly as ‘He’ says,
You may be redeemed.
But since ‘He’ is the only REAL God,
then, all of the other religions of Humankind are going to hell,
or worse yet, stoned to death in the name of the Lord.
'A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.' " (Lev. 20:7).
Wouldn’t you consider that a bit harsh ?
Either you’re a Catholic or you’re going to hell??!
Either you’re Catholic or we stone you to death !
Wouldn’t you feel just a little bit like a ‘ Gringo ‘ or an ‘Ugly American ‘
going into a
If you went into a Shaolin temple with that line you may find yourself
face to face with a serious ass kicking.
It’s a pretty fair guess to say that God did NOT tell anyone to do that !
That sounds more like Medieval mumbo jumbo.
The Dark Ages, when the bible was written were indeed dark.
Very similar to the propaganda of today, the scribes and monks were likely pressured to manipulate the storyline to create terror, and fear among the masses for the purpose of political control. Just look at the incredible and all but indelible scar that that fear has generated among the people’s of the past and of today.
A fair person, of moderate religious inclination, would not be inclined to go to the neighbour and stone him to death because of a difference in religious belief,
Catholic or not.
But the Ku Klux Klan has taken it upon themselves to do exactly that.
In what is considered today as gang violence, they have burned churches, lynched blacks and whites, brandished guns and burned crosses in the name of some deviant offshoot of the Catholic church. An off shoot that’s inspired from the first line of Genesis and expounded upon ad infinitum through out ‘ the scriptures ‘;
that there is ONLY ONE God !!
Now I know that the evenly tempered person of today really doesn’t go there,
yet in some vague suppressed corner of the Catholic/Christian mind lurks the idea that the honourable and faithful is entitled to stone an unbeliever to death !
The Bible after all, says so many many times; so it MUST be true, and the Anglo-Saxon / European offshoots must still be wearing that energy today, but forgotten to identify it specifically any more.
Okay are you ready for this ?
IT IS NOT TRUE !
THERE IS NOT ONLY ONE GOD !
Fortunately most good Catholics realize that the things written in the Bible
are not necessarily to be taken literally.
Unfortunately, there are some who don’t, and go out brandishing weapons and killing people in a medieval mindset wearing their little crowns of righteousness, pointed hoods, or military uniforms.
What a horror it must be for the good Catholic to know that the same words he or she holds and worships for peace and compassion, are converted into the death cry of a rabid religious right. I don’t think anyone wants to try to talk a pack of white hooded men into an arena of good sense while they’re waving guns or burning crosses in their hands,
nor incite a bloodthirsty militia of military gunmen to lay down their precious weapons to consider the error of their ways.
Given that that is the dilemma we’re faced with as a nation ‘at war’,
the truly religious patriot is NOT a death machine at all, but rather a Truth Seeker.
A God loving person, not God fearing !!
Given that our ‘War on Terror’ has been incited from within our national trust by a power who’s interest’s lie within the unthinking hysteria of a nation bent on revenge, we, as a people must see through the blinding rage and ask why we have been manipulated to seek death to an unspecified enemy as the only recourse to 9/11.
The honorable and good piety of sincere souls has been twisted into a tool for a power hungry few who will benefit while we kill and are killed, while the war hungry few who have waited and trained for death are easily prompted to don armour and guns and seek out any and all violators as ascribed by a maniacal few.
Blind and numb, we have been duped into an un-Godly, un-Patriotic, and un-American rampage into a never ending theater of war against an unjustly convicted perpetrator.
That is NOT how our American Pride has been outlined or cultivated.
That is NOT our representation of Democracy.
That is NOT the core of our Heritage.
That is the core of the fascist, who inflicts weaponry and death
upon innocent people for gain, and we all know what happens to ill gotten gains.
I’ve been at the hand of bullies inflicting unfair and undeserved wrath, served upon unjustly as a scapegoat for some vague, undefined resentment hand me down :- the dastardly relic of prior bad acts passed from parent to child like family jewels.
That type of hatred and blind injustice will raise an indignant fury within an innocent receiver that will cause permanent distortion and damage within said otherwise clear and benign recipient.
This freshly planted field of unfairly damaged souls IS going to come back and haunt us and our offspring. The children who have watched their parents burn at the hand of some adolescent idiot G.I. with a flame thrower who’s wracking death and mayhem upon anything that moves; are harbouring resentment that’s so deep they will most likely NEVER recover from it or the images of savagery branded into their innocent minds.
“ We’re liberating the people of
to American Democracy “
ARE THEY KIDDING??!!
Nope. They’re serious.
They believe it.
“ THAT is NOT American Democracy.”
Do you understand?!
You have been told.
What the current government is doing is
NOT DEMOCRATIC !!
IT’S FASCIST !!
It’s a Fascist as the war that Hitler started.
A war based on lies.
A war based on murder.
A war based on false pretexts and seriously distorted allusions of Democracy,
Religion, and American Justice.
It WILL come back and bite us.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Peace Out,
Radical Priest,
Reverend Michael Valentine Goldsun
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