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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (17854)	7/10/2001 12:22:02 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

The Prussians were Christians and used the missionary as advance foot soldiers as did the colonials. The German Nationals sided with the Catholics to help advance their cause as well. Russian Communism was partly a response to Christianity and their desire to stomp it out led to brutal crimes in the Crimea and Ukraine. In Canada the Anglican church will be bankrupt for crimes committed in residential missionary schools by their prelates decades ago. I would call it cultural warfare what the white Christian church did to Indians. You might enjoy this... "Before the Holy Inquisition burnt its victims, it performed the most solemn religious service - a High Mass with singing. When criminals are executed, priests always officiate, molesting the delinquents with their presence. In Prussia the unfortunate victim was led to the block by a pastor, in Austria to the gallows by a Catholic priest, in France to the guillotine, in America to the electric chair and in Spain to a chair where he was strangled by an ingenious appliance. In Russia the revolutionary was taken off by a bearded Orthodox priest etc. Everywhere on these occasions they used to march about with a crucified Christ figure, as if to say: 'They're only cutting your head off, they're only hanging you, strangling you, putting fifteen thousand volts into you, but think what that chap there had to go through.' The great shambles of the world war did not take place without the blessing of priests. Chaplains of all armies prayed and celebrated drumhead masses for victory for the side whose bread they ate. When mutineers were executed a priest appeared. A priest could also be seen at the execution of the Czech legionaries. Nothing has changed from the time when the robber Vojtech, (St. Adalbert - a Czech patron saint) whom they nicknamed 'the Saint', operated with a sword in one hand and a cross in the other, murdering and extermination the Baltic Slavs. Throughout all Europe people went to the slaughter like cattle, driven there not only by butcher emperors, kings and other potentates and generals, but also by priests of all confessions, who blessed them and made them perjure themselves that they would destroy the enemy on land, in the air, on the sea etc. Drumhead masses were generally celebrated twice: Once when a detachment left for the front and once more at the front on the eve of some bloody massacre and carnage. I remember that once when a drumhead mass was being celebrated an enemy aeroplane dropped a bomb on us and hit the field altar. There was nothing left of the chaplain except some bloodstained rags. Afterwards they wrote about him as a martyr, while our aeroplanes prepared the same kind of glory for the chaplains on the other side. We had a great deal of fun out of this, and on the provisional cross, at the spot where they buried the remains of the chaplain, there appeared overnight this epitaph: What may hit us has now hit you You always said we'd join the saints. Well, now you've caught it at Holy Mass And where you stood are only stains." Jaroslav Hasek - The Good Soldier Svejk