Comments on: The Feminization of the Military

By: Corkey

Corkey — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:48:31 +0000

So Tim R.

When are you enlisting? Maybe you will meet a nice girl and move back to the homeland.

Also,

Regarding the discussion of the Apostle Paul….when Paul was imprisoned illegally by the Roman authorities they were shocked to find out that he was indeed a Roman citizen with specific rights. The Roman authorities became fearful and proceeded to release him after Paul recited these rights to them. He was no wall flower and spoke boldly whenever given the opportunity.

By: Catacombs

Catacombs — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:19:15 +0000

Romans 13:1 was mentioned earlier. You can follow the word of Paul when he says to “submit to the governing authorities” by refusing to commit state-sanctioned murder and then going straight to the authorities and “submitting” yourself to them as a conscientious objector and then “submitting” to the state-sanctioned consequences. These actions are in compliance with the text.

As for Luke 3:14, the passage “Do not take money from anyone by force, or accuse anyone falsely, and be content with your wages” confirms three commandments: do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not covet. And nowhere does the text explicitly command anyone to commit murder for the earthly authorities. To do so is a violation of the ten commandments. Are we to expect that we should have other gods before God because the state says so – in order to submit to the state? Bullocks! Nor will I commit murder for the state. And I am willing to submit to the authorities for refusing to do so.

Christians have to decide whether they will worship the Prince of Peace or the Masters of War.

By: richard vajs

richard vajs — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:08:44 +0000

Tim R,
I assume that you were never in the Armed Forces of the United States that you feel God so lovinly gave to the World. I was in the Navy at the start of the Viet-Nam War (the Navy got me out of the San Diego County jail where I was facing 3 months on charges of vagrancy – they still had the old anti-Okie law). Anyway, I got sent to a ship, the USS Hancock that was “lucky” enough to conduct the first aerial bombardment of North Viet-Nam. As a flightdeck crewman, I was asked to chalk my name on some 500 lb bomb under the salutation – “Sorry about that, Ho Chi Minh”. I refused as I said that that bomb wasn’t going to hit old Ho, it was probably going to hit some poor innocent slob on a water buffalo. Later our senior petty officer provided us a “leadership” lecture on why these people were all “gooks” and we shouldn’t give a sh-t about them. Again I dissented and made the statement that they were also human. I got threatened with a “blanket party” for that same evening. Anyway, all I carried away from my 4 year, 4 month stint was memories of callous, racist, swineish behavior (the bar fights, the puke and blood, the whoremongering, the VD). My shipmates included good people as well as barracks thieves, homosexual prostitutes, and deadbeats. To tell the truth, I met the same class of people in the military as in jail. You ought to try either and broaden your mind.

By: Catacombs

Catacombs — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:52:41 +0000

As for the theological discussion above…

I have seen no asterisk by the commandment “Thou shall not kill.” Why would there be an exception to that commandment and not to the others? Would any Judeo-Christian believer argue that given certain circumstances you should worship false idols or commit adultery? I’ve never heard it argued. Or that you should have other gods before God? No asterisks by any of the commandments. But it’s OK to commit state-sanctioned murder? Show me the asterisk.

When we talk about ’sacrificing for one’s country’ we usually think that means dying in the line of duty for one’s country. But it can also mean sacrificing your innocence as a non-murderer by engaging in state-sanctioned murder – against the commandment of God. And we wonder why so many of our soldiers come home psychologically afflicted…

By: anti-neocon

anti-neocon — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:19:40 +0000

I so agree with Lawrence Vance, that it is tragic that many of my fellow inhabitants of the Corporation of IsraelUSA are raising their daughters to be soldiers, for the empire I add. Thanks for this great article and I so appreciate the comments posted here. Keep truth alive!

By: Mike R

Mike R — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:09:38 +0000

Ana, I have long since believed as you that America must “fail”. That is total economic and societal collapse. The survivors, the remnant, will pick up the peices and start over again. That day has been put off by constant intervention by the Fed and the government, interfering with market forces. This will make the final debacle total and survivable by only those who have Prepared. It will happen suddenly. The only ingrediant needed for that day is fear. Revelation 18 discribes the event: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great(world’s monetary system based on bibically forbidden usuary banking), all this wealth in one hour has come to nothing”.

By: 1984

1984 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:37:20 +0000

I disagree. For many fundamentalist muslims it is beyond borders as many of them are quick to denounce what palestinians have to put up with… muslims become an entity to be protected from outside intruders, despite some of their differences.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:29:07 +0000

Who the hell was Paul anyways? Some guy who claimed to have seen Jesus? The man who doesn’t shower on the local street corner says the same thing, but I don’t see his books in the New Testament. “Saint” my ass.

By: Dano

Dano — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:01:14 +0000

I agree with you in that the actions of the US military in the last 50 years have been disgusting. Unfortunately this is the nature of humanity. There is not a single country/people on earth that if given the power of the US would not use it in an aggressive fashion. This is why I am for strong local militias and much less power in the hands of the federal government. They can maintain a Navy and Air Force to defend OUR coastlines only, but they should never have access to standing armies to send overseas. People should have military training to defend themselves in the form of a citizens army and be responsible for their freedom as they were 1776. But this concept of a huge professional army controlled by our elites always ends up in the same way. We will continue to find any reason to go everywhere to serve special interest, whether it be some perceived “threat” or some “humanitarian” mission. People who want to keep us out of these military conflicts are completely powerless to do anything about it.

By: Lear K

Lear K — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:36:46 +0000

“A compassionate Vietnamese civilian left his air raid shelter and swam out to McCain. McCain’s arm and leg were fractured and he was tangled up in his parachute underwater. He was drowning. The Vietnamese man saved McCain’s sorry ass, and yet McCain has nothing but hatred for “the gooks” who allegedly tortured him. As he told reporters on his campaign bus (The Straight Talk Express) in 2000, “I will hate them as long as I live.” (1) ”

http://www.counterpunch.org/valentine06132008.html

By: Lear K

Lear K — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:27:12 +0000

To this day many Americans still hold such a hostile attitude towards the Vietnamese as if the Vietnamese were the aggressors against the US.The US has played the victim for long enough!

By: Gleen Greenblatt

Gleen Greenblatt — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:07:55 +0000

It is inaccurate to speak of Christians is this context. We are talking about
Heretics who do not submit to the true church of Christ, the Roman Catholic Church.
Protestants in their myriad varieties agree on only one thing, their rejection
of The Church. Essentially Protestants are agents of the Enlightenment and spread
its spoor of insanity. The inversion of reality which is vain attempt to make
women men, a laughable absurdity which would have marked anyone as mad in the
military history of the world, can only lead to eventual collapse through
military defeat. An amazing comedy of human folly which derives from trying
to make the self God. BTW, Paul spoke of the ‘princes of the world’, not
‘government authorities’. As protestants worship in the synagogues of Satan,
so government authorities in democracies bow to the same Satan. The game
can only end in tears.