Post 306. More menon the ground and heavy firepower in Afghanistan.
The Defence Department's grongos and Army are talking about the need fore more helicopters and jets.
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The first duty in humanity of our people, politicians, lay and religious leaders is to be directed towards the nations in our Civilization, the fundamental premises being that we must make sure we keep reforming ourselves ethically and religiously.
For a Civilization like ours which developed and reached its peak through, with and in Christianity, the pristine, original Christian Ethics must be always gone back to for the purpose of reformation, even if one were to find oneself an atheist or an agnostic in relation to God's existence.
For a civilized human individual there is no alternative but to dwell in Ethics.
Whoever wishes to be uncivilized please do us a favour, piss off and renounce civilized achievements and join the barbarians whoever these my be and cease from waffling about human rights which can arise from Christianity alone.
Christianity does not mean a literal application of Jesus' self-immolation to death for a whole nation or Civilization, this remaining a choice for an individual.
Christianity does not mean the abolition of the Old Testament with its harsh commitments to fight, vanquish and eradicate evil, even materially and physically, when an opponent, a life-destroying anti-social individual or people, generally called in History Barbarians threatens the collective to which the individual belongs and for which the individual is duty-bound to fight vanquish and destroy evil for the sake of others.
Jesus' death on the Cross does not necessarily need every Christian to die on the cross without reacting physically to the evil in the world, exactly like Jesus did. It would be arrogance and a form of escapism. There is no avoiding the Cross which takes different aspects for each one of us. One of our soldiers dying in a war against a Barbarian dies crucified.
So, both attitudes, the one about passively abd humbly turning the other cheek for a blow or the one of an eye for an eye are still available as a choice.
The choice has to be rational, courageous, and considerate of our responsibilities as individuals who are members of a collective duty-bound to oppose evil in all its chamaleontic chamouflages.
Let those who can hear and see spiritually understand.
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