03-08-2009, 05:51 PM
When I saw the title, I thought it was about American citizens ...
Meanwhile, Ray McGovern (former CIA analyst) has some nasty words for the Christians who stand by and ignore, applaud or support this kind of behavior in our military, government, and cultural mindset.
Four excerpts:
“Everyone in the world knows that Jesus and his teachings were non-violent except Christians.” (Gandhi)
“... one of the first things Hitler did on assuming power was to ensure there was a pastor in every Lutheran and Catholic parish in Germany. Why? Because he calculated, correctly, that this would be a force for stability for his regime.”
“The utter failure of nearly all our religious institutions — whose texts are unequivocal about murder — to address the essence of war has rendered them useless. These institutions have little or nothing to say in wartime because the god they worship is a false god, one that promises victory to those who obey the law and believe in the manifest destiny of the nation.”
“As St. Augustine pointed out 1,600 years ago:
“Hope has two children. The first is anger at the way things are. The second is courage to do something about it.”
in Ray McGovern's “Christians” Wink at Torture” (“All the more strange, it would seem, since Jesus of Nazareth, after all, was tortured to death.”)
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/44892
Meanwhile, Ray McGovern (former CIA analyst) has some nasty words for the Christians who stand by and ignore, applaud or support this kind of behavior in our military, government, and cultural mindset.
Four excerpts:
“Everyone in the world knows that Jesus and his teachings were non-violent except Christians.” (Gandhi)
“... one of the first things Hitler did on assuming power was to ensure there was a pastor in every Lutheran and Catholic parish in Germany. Why? Because he calculated, correctly, that this would be a force for stability for his regime.”
“The utter failure of nearly all our religious institutions — whose texts are unequivocal about murder — to address the essence of war has rendered them useless. These institutions have little or nothing to say in wartime because the god they worship is a false god, one that promises victory to those who obey the law and believe in the manifest destiny of the nation.”
“As St. Augustine pointed out 1,600 years ago:
“Hope has two children. The first is anger at the way things are. The second is courage to do something about it.”
in Ray McGovern's “Christians” Wink at Torture” (“All the more strange, it would seem, since Jesus of Nazareth, after all, was tortured to death.”)
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/44892