Haqi... did forget to mention some other examples? :-)
Tell me though... do you REALLY think the French in WW I had any more claim to 'God' then the Germans?
(Or are you saying that 'God' decided to weigh in with the French over the Vietnamese... then went with the Japanese over the Vietnamese... then decided the Communists in North Vietnam had more claim on Him then the French Colonialists... then decided to stick with that thought and go with Ho and the boys over the US?)
Etc., etc., etc., in war after war down through the ages?
I can't see it!
I'm with Lincoln on this one: I'd rather pray that I on God's side rather then pray that God is enlisted to mine....
Cause, human War is something special!
"You have two choices..." Genghis Khan said at the gates of Samarkand. "You can submit to me... [I will only take your wealth and sleep with your wives and daughters]... or I will kill you all."
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"Kill them all; God will know his own." --- Pope Innocent III's legate, during the Albigensian Crusades
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Hermann Goering, commander of the Luftwaffe, said before being sentenced to death at Nuremberg:
"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. . . . All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
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"I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." --- Mahatma Gandhi
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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." --- Susan B. Anthony
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"And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." --- Monty Python |
