Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Fire at Notre-Dame and Muslim Schadenfreude (Part One)
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Jihad Watch : Before the devastating fire at Notre-Dame broke out, there had been
two months of attacks on French churches all around France, very few of
which were reported on in the media outside France, and some of which
hardly received sufficient coverage inside the country.
There was a fire
set at St. Sulpice, the second-largest church in Paris, which sits in
the Muslim-majority neighborhood of Seine Saint-Denis, surrounded by
mosques and Muslim shops. At the church of Villeneuve de Berg in
Ardèche, Muslim teenagers urinated into the holy water font to express
their contempt for Christianity. In another church, Muslims fashioned a
cross of human excrement smeared on a church wall, with stolen Communion
hosts stuck at the four corners.
Some may be reminded of Oriana
Fallaci’s enraged report on Muslim immigrants in Florence who, to
express their dissatisfaction at not being given the treatment they felt
was their due, urinated (and some defecated) on the bronze doors of the
Baptistery, both the north and east doors by Lorenzo Ghiberti, and the
south doors by Andrea Pisano; these doors are one of the supreme works
of Renaissance art. On seeing Ghiberti’s doors, Michelangelo called them
the “Gates of Paradise.” These were the doors streaming with urine, and
smeared with feces, by Muslim migrants showing their contempt for the
Unbelievers who, after all, had given them refuge but apparently, that
was not enough.
In 2018, there were 1,063 attacks on Christian churches or symbols
(crucifixes, icons, statues) in France, a 17% rise over the year before.
All over France, acts of vandalism of churches have been registered in
ever-increasing numbers. In recent months, crucifixes have been pulled
off church walls and broken into pieces. Statues of Jesus, Mary, and
various saints have been smashed; many have been decapitated. The
monastery of Saint Jean des Blames in Aveyron was sacked by Muslims. The
Paris daily Le Figaro, in reporting on some of these incidents, asked
“Who has heard of the sacking of the monastery of Saint Jean des Balmes
in Aveyron?
Of those teenagers who urinated into the holy water font of
the church at Villeneuve de Berg in Ardèche?” RT
states that “the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris, where the Da Vinci
Code movie was filmed, was set on fire just after midday mass on Sunday,
Le Parisien reports.
Firefighters and police said the blaze was an arson attack. In
February, a 19th century statue of the Virgin Mary was smashed at the
St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Houilles. The statue was ‘completely pulverized,’ Father Francois-Laurent Heart said. “It is irreparable.”
The church reported three incidents in 10 days, with a cross also
thrown on the floor by vandals. At Saint-Alain Cathedral in Lavaur,
statues and crosses were smashed and an altar cloth was burned in
February. A statue of Christ on a cross was also interfered with, as
vandals twisted one of the arms to make it appear that Jesus was
dabbing, La Depeche reports….
Meanwhile, the Notre-Dame des Enfants church in Nimes was looted
and vandals used human excrement to draw a cross on the wall in
February. Consecrated hosts of unleavened bread, which Catholics believe
is the body of Jesus Christ, were found scattered outside with
rubbish.” These and numerous other attacks on French churches receive
minimal, if any, media coverage.
