Matthew 5:44

And Jesus said, "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;"

That is hard stuff to live by. It is even harder for the far right band of "Christians" that wrap themselves in the Holy Shroud of Turin nearly as often as the wrap themselves in the flag of the U.S.A.


"Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody." Romans 12:17.


In the New Testament Jesus does utter, "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:" (Matthew 5:38) But, he goes on to say, "But I say to you, That you resist not evil: but whoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also." So, if you call yourself a Christian, and you go shooting your mouth off about "an eye for an eye," you should blow the dust of your bible, and try reading it.


Maybe Jesus knew something all too few of us realize. The people who we drop bombs on. The people whose homes we have destroyed. The people whose children have had their arms and legs blown off. The people who have lost their faces to phosphorus weapons. All those dusty, dirty people in far away lands are no more a threat to our individual lives than we, as individuals, are to theirs. If we as differing peoples are not the threat, then who is? Who plays the people of the world against each other? Who markets wars, and tales of "those people" to us? Who gains from war anyway? Individual citizens? No. Individual soldiers? No. The family trying to scrape out a living on a small patch of land? No. Then who? The people who make weapons? You bet. The people whose political careers are further by posing as the heroes of the American Way of Life, yet never have seen the horrors of war first hand? Oh yes. How about the corporations who come in after a war and buy up the natural resources at bargain basement prices? How about companies who get to rebuild what has been destroyed by our tax dollars, with our tax dollars? Yes, yes. How about the people who finance both sides of wars, the international bankers? Now we are getting somewhere. As U.S. Marine Corp Major General Smedley Butler wrote, "War Is a Racket." Major General Smedley Butler was America's most decorated solder and a two-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. After a long military career, Major General Smedley Butler wrote "War Is a Racket." He figured out he was not fighting for the U.S.A., he was fighting for a small group of elites who cared nothing about common people. In fact, they laugh at you. They refer to you as "useful idiots." They know exactly how to get you to do their bidding. To them, you are cattled to be farmed. Dumb animals to be used for whatever they need you for.

It works every time. The faces of those we are told are our enemies are always changing, always being rotated out. Germans, Italians, Japanese, North Koreans, Russians, South Americans, Cubans, Vietnamese, Laotians. Now they are Arabs. Except that Iranians aren't Arabs, or are Libyans. Iranians are Aryan, and Libyans are from North Africa. Of course, that does work well with the story line. We have been so dumbed down and brainwashed we will cheer for the deaths of anyone we are told are "the bad people." We cheer for the blood of the children of God. We cheer for the obliteration of the Faces of God we do not have the courage to speak out and defend, lest we be shouted down as un-American. America is to stand for the down trodden. America should stand up for those who are slaughtered by the Tens of Thousands. If we can't do that, if we can't question just what is being done in our name, then The Republic has been lost. There is no America to be proud of. We are just the tax slaves for the expenses of war, and our children are nothing but mercenaries and cannon fodder.

We should love the enemies we are told to hate, and hate those who continue to send our children off to kill the children of people whose only wish is to live long enough to see their children grow up too.

Maybe then we would have a chance.

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