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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: DMaA who wrote (55179)7/1/1999 11:28:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
One argument against a draft is that with a volunteer army the guys want to be there and they make better soldiers. More gung ho. It makes the left nervous when a bunch of guys volunteer to fight and become experts in weaponry, swearing allegiance to each other and fostering their own code and culture. I understand JLA's point, though. Young men and women (particularly men) no longer have a rite of passage. Our old faiths (Judaism and Catholocism) have rites of passage for their young people, but they have been watered down by modernism. Until the 60s a young Catholic took vows to renounce Lucifer and was accepted as a soldier in the army of Christ. I don't know how Confirmation in the modernist Catholic church works today, but I hear its a joke. I think there are still cultures in the world where a young man is given a spear and told he can't come back until hes killed a lion. We need to find our equivalent of that. If those two ding dongs in Colorado had had the proper rite of passage what happened wouldn't have happened.
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