It takes a lot of guts to speak up against something in today's society. The only thing that is safe to criticize are christians and the church. Say something negative about Jews, gays, blacks, muslims, and polish and you get shocked gasps of how could you and calls of bigot. We see it in our political world as well. Everything is sacred except when one acts on the foundation of christian rights.
For some reason we have come to a place where we think that peace is the only way to go. The only way for us to behave is peaceful. What makes this even more interesting is that this "peaceful" movement is led by young people. College students and young professionals. People that have never known true war, devastation and hardship. They go about speaking about how war is evil and destructive. They weep when speaking about aggressive policies that lead to suffering. This comes from people that have never gone hungry, never held a victim of war, and never suffered the consequences of violence. I am disgusted with this. We have become desperately passive.
How i envy those who have the passion to die for what they believe! How i envy those who are willing to fight for their cause! People are stupid enough to think that peace is good always. Why do we just sit and do nothing? The heroes that we admire throughout history shook the world because they fought. Jesus included. How i long to be part of a crusade! Yes i know that evil word. There has been a castration of youth and i dont want to be part of it anymore.
Cafe
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David this is excellent, I could not agree more!
Another issue I have is the unwillingness of the younger generation (and the slightly older one I am in) to wait for anything. If we don't see results now then we get upset, criticize, call for immediate change thinking that immediate change = immediate results according to how we want them to be. It is ludicrous.
I too am tired of the Christian view being treated as discriminatory when any other group can state their opinion or agenda and it be called "freedom of speech". Freedom of speech does not give freedom for some and not for all. And with every freedom comes a responsibility thus it is not a free-for-all. This "right" was rather instituted to protect the citizens of the USA (not illegals) so they would be able to speak before government and not be imprisoned for it. We have now changed that definition to include every type of speech we want it to be.
Anyhow I could go on forever so I will stop here.
I absolutely agree. Honestly, I am fed up with all of this hypocrisy towards Christianity. Yes, to certain degree we (Christians) caused some of things that came our way. But I agree with David's blog and with Gretch's comment. I as a Christian have a right to speak up for my beliefs and a right to disagree with gay marriages, pornography, etc. and not be called a bigot because of it. Jesus is called the Prince of Peace but he is also a God who is a warrior, God who is passionate about justice, God who can curse and bless.
David, I agree with you that it's wrong to hold people to a double standard. It is true that Christians in general, and the church in particular, have often been unfairly singled out as "bigoted" for standing up for truth, and that the same attitude is often not shown towards other groups in our society.
That being said, I think experiencing the things you mention (being a victim of war, losing loved ones to war, suffering violence) lead many to a stronger anti-war stance. It is easy for those who have never experienced the brutality and senseless violence of constant warfare to view it as a good thing. While I'm not a pacifist, I do think that war should be our very last resort, and that we should not defend our killing another human being by trying to assert that God is on our side.
There is a difference between dying for what you passionately believe in (following the self-sacrificial example of Jesus) and killing another human being for what you passionately believe in.
I have a hard time believing that any cause, no matter how noble, is worth the destruction of another human life. As Paul wrote, "our struggle is not against flesh and blood." Being against killing another human for your cause does not equate to "castration."
Hey y'all. Great to see David's post, and your comments.
As I read David's post, I felt as you seemed to feel about our culture. And I also thought about what Eric said.
I think of John McCain, who is a great example for those of us who have not fought in literal wars. He wants to put more troops in the field an strengthen America's stand in Iraq. And he also speaks about how war is horrible, and it should be avoided.
It is interesting that the very top people who made the decision to go to war in Iraq, for instance, had never served in a war (Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld). I believe this colored their decision to fight, and the way in which they fought.
When the senior President Bush felt it was necessary to go to war, he (unlike his son) sent in overwhelming force with a short-term mandate.
It seems to me that violence should always be the last resort. But, when it is necessary, it should be exercised with great strength and tears in our eyes.
"...with great strength and tears in our eyes."
I like that.
I heard a great man say once:
"They want us to swallow their ungodliness,but they can not handle our righteousness."
We are to be tolerant of all things, but as soon as we assert our position we are looked at as being "judgemental" or "narrow minded". Wasn't Jesus persecuted for just this? If we as followers of Christ think that we should always be at peace(meaning not questioning anything)we are sadly mistaken. Christ constantly questioned and saught the will of His Father. The more that we love Christ the more that we are set apart from this world.
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