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[Political-Religious-War Making] Would Jesus Celebrate Memorial Day?
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PREVIEW:
During the 20th century, an average of 10,000 people were murdered each and every single day. These people were not murdered by people who are usually called "
murderers." That's because the people who did the killing all wore
uniforms of the various governments on earth. In the United States, 16,110 people were murdered during all of the year 2002 by "murderers," that is, private enterprise murderers
not wearing an official government uniform, whose killings were not officially approved by the government. The government's justification for its own existence is protecting the world from killers.
This is a lie. During the last 15 years, during the Bush I/Clinton/Bush II years, the United States has killed approximately
2,000,000 men, women, and children in Iraq during various Gulf "wars," "operations," and embargoes. That's more than 100,000 per year, almost ten times the number of "private" murders committed per year. On the CBS News program "60 Minutes," on May 12, 1996, Lesley Stahl asked Madeleine Albright, later Secretary of State under Bill Clinton:
Stahl: We have heard that a half million children have died [in Iraq]. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.
EXCERPT:
Would Jesus Celebrate Memorial Day?
| Nobody "celebrates" Memorial Day. You're supposed to "observe" Memorial Day. You're supposed to "remember" those who were killed because they joined the Armed Forces of the United States. "Mourn" would be a better word than "celebrate." But you're not supposed to mourn too much. If you mourn too much, you will be implying that their deaths were in vain. On Memorial Day we're supposed to "remember" or "observe" the deaths of soldiers in a way that honors or applauds their choice to become a soldier. You "mourn" if your neighbor's kid dies from mixing all kinds of chemicals together to get a new "high." Or if he skateboards off the roof in an "Xtreme" manner and dies. We mourn the loss of life, but we don't honor their actions. On Memorial Day, "remember" means to "honor." We are supposed to "honor" those who made the choice to join the Armed Forces of the United States and were killed while fighting. So . . . . . . would Jesus "honor" those who took up a sword and died? |
51 And suddenly, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
52 But Jesus said to him, "Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. 53 Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?
Matthew 26:51-53 |
Obviously my question "Would Jesus Celebrate Memorial Day?" is an attention-grabbing conversation-starting question. Some might think it's a "put-up-your-dukes-and-let's-fight-it-out" kind of question. Designed to start a heated argument. I hate heated arguments and name-calling. That's not what I want. I want to provoke a serious, intelligent, thoughtful, and prayerful conversation, not a fight. I want to discuss how the teachings of Christ can be applied to our military and foreign policy. I'll try not to call my opponent a "hateful" "warmonger" if my opponents won't just shout me down by repeating the mantra "U-S-A!! U-S-A!! U-S-A!" over and over to drown out my arguments. I find it supremely ironic that many veterans and those who are "Rah! Rah!" about the military, and call me names like "pacifist wimp!" and "flower child!" are afraid -- yes, terrorized -- by the prospect of sitting down and intelligently, unemotionally engaging in a rigorous intellectual and spiritual debate of the issues. They don't want to deal in the area of facts, statistics, and logic to confront questions like: - Was it really worth the deaths of 50-90 million human beings in World War II
- to prevent Poland and Czechoslovakia from being occupied by the Nazis, only to have Poland and Czechoslovakia occupied by the Communists?
- Or to prevent China from being occupied by Japanese fascists, only to have China turned over to the Communist mass murderer Mao Tse Tung?
- Was it really worth the deaths of 600,000 Americans to emancipate blacks from somewhat-Christian plantations, only to enslave them in atheistic drug-infested, crime-ridden federal housing projects, and make them permanently unemployable and dependent on their masters in Washington D.C.?
- Was it really worth all the deaths of all the children, fathers, brothers, sons, daughters, sisters and mothers to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime (previously supported by the U.S.) and erect an Islamic Theocracy in its place, killing or making homeless hundreds of thousands of Christians?
- Is there a single war in U.S. history where economists and scholars from every party can agree that our standard of living was increased, and the power of government over our lives was diminished?
Life, liberty, and property. War destroys all three. Every time. No exceptions. I respect those who never asked these questions but believed the claims of the government's military recruiters, and genuinely and sincerely wanted to help their country. But good citizenship demands that we question the lies of our government and its recruiters. "They Served their Country." Really? - They "Served"
They killed people. They bombed their homes, churches, mosques, schools, hospitals. - Their "Country"
Am I their "country?" Not really. Not ordinary people like me. Soldiers serve the government in Washington D.C. and those who manufacture weapons under government contracts, issued by politicians who promised those lucrative contracts in exchange for their votes. They serve the foreign policy of those who seek to build a "New World Order." Henry Kissinger was one of the great architects of U.S. Foreign Policy. It is reported that "In [Army General Alexander] Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as 'dumb, stupid animals to be used' as pawns for foreign policy." Another word for "dump, stupid animals" is "sheeple." We the People cannot be sheeple any longer. We must choose between the government of the United States in Washington D.C. on the one hand, and America on the other. America, my country, is an ideal: a people who enjoy "Liberty Under God." A "City upon a Hill." A country once identified by the U.S. Supreme Court as "a Christian nation." The Federal Government of the United States is an atheistic regime at war with the ideal of "Liberty Under God." Armies do not benefit the America ideal of "Liberty Under God." Armies serve the federal government. They do not even defend our borders. They impose the policies of Washington D.C. on people of other nations. The government in Washington D.C. does not deserve your service. You should not die, you should not allow your neighbor to die, nor should you kill for, the Bush-Obama regime. The Federal Government of the United States is anti-American. It is anti-Christ. So I mourn the dead, but I cannot honor them. They died in vain. Death makes Jesus weep, but Jesus would not celebrate or honor the choice to destroy the life, liberty and property of others by joining the military complex of the U.S. Federal Government. |
Would Jesus approve of the killing of either of these husbands?
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Forwarded by Michael Smith, promoter of Amendment28:Repudiate
Supporters of Amendment 28: Repudiate are requested to take a voluntary oath to do two things: FIRST: Accept, Support and Promote the two commandments of Christ to LOVE your neighbor as yourself and LOVE your God with all your heart and SECOND: Agree to use NO VIOLENCE at any time or place in deed or on paper to promote Amendment28Repudiate.
At the "Christian" common law, 2 requirements: 1. Do all that you promised and agreed to do (that is lawful) and 2. Cause NO harm to your fellow man
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