Prince
Of Peace- Ban Religion!
By David Truskoff
04 August, 2006
Countercurrents.org
One
would think that if there was a supreme being, be it a he or she supreme
being, the first thing that Supreme Being would do is ban religion.If
God sent his son down to be the Prince of Peace then the first thing
the Prince of Peace would have to do would be to get rid of the most
deadly weapon man has ever invented. RELIGION. For centuries humans
have been sent off to kill each other, for the benefit of a few seeking
power and riches, after they have first been infected with the mind
numbing rational that they are doing Gods’ work.
"The Crusades, like
so much of the modern conflict, were not wholly rational movements that
could be explained away by purely economic or territorial ambition or
by the clash of rights and interests. They were fueled, on all sides,
by myths and passions that were far more effective in getting people
to act than any purely political motivation. The medieval holy wars
in the Middle East could not be solved by rational treatises or neat
territorial solutions. Fundamental passions were involved which touched
the identity of Christians, Muslims and Jews and which were sacred to
the identity of each. They have not changed very much in the holy wars
of today."
---Karen Armstrong,
Holy War, 1988
PROCLOMATION
"The Allied armies
through sacrifice and devotion, and with GOD’S help have won from
the enemy final and unconditional surrender. Now, therefore, I Harry
S Truman, President of the United States of AmericaDo hereby appoint
Sunday, August 19,1945, to be a day of prayer and thanksgiving."
-Harry S Truman
Would God have helped Truman
drop one bomb on a city and kill 70,000 people, including the women
and children and then a few days later do the same thing again to another
city? Was the Prince of Peace really sent here for that purpose? Would
he have given us the atom bomb to use?
As congress voted to continue
the Day of Prayer South Korean politics of the 1950s was controlled
by the ruthless dictator73 year old, Syngman Rhee. His ambition for
personal power knew no bounds. He stood in the way of any attempt toward
a democratic Korea. He was a new Christian and a virulent anti-Communist
.To him they were the anti Christ. He vowed to invade the North and
with help from the US, wipe them out. Hearing that threat, the North
launched a pre-emptive strike and the Civil war began. America chose
Rhee to lead the fight against the unbelieving Communists. He was to
be the President of South Korea.
Rhee instituted "The
National Security Law" to put down the opposition mainly from the
Buddhists, and to stop the student uprising against the repression by
Rhee’s brother who was boss of the dreaded secrete police, and
in charge of enforcing the oppressive law. Armed with the law, Rhee
terrorized the people with a campaign of anti-Communist witch-hunts.
The secrete Police rounded up many dissidents who had no connections
with the Communists at all, but opposed Rhee’s mad drive to convert
and dominate the people. He was finally driven out of the country into
exile in Hawaii, but he continued his Self serving Christian efforts.
Syngman Rhee, was later elected moderator of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
.
"Our ministry of reconciliation stems from our commitment to Jesus
Christ, through whom God has reconciled us to himself," said Rhee
in his pre-election speech. The Results of the Crusade to save American
interests in the region: U.S. losses were placed at over 54,000 dead
and 103,000 wounded, while Chinese and Korean casualties were each at
least 10 times as high.
Today, more than half a century
later the US still has tens of thousands of troops on the North Korean
border and the country is still divided. In the 1960s while marching
with Dr. King in Mississippi, some of the older marchers started to
sing the second chorus of "We Shall Overcome." The lyrics
are "God is on our side." Directly across the street the Klan
was holding up a large sign that read, "God believed in the separation
of the races." So the younger marchers switched to singing the
song," Which side are you on boy, which side are you on,"
But instead of saying boy they inserted God.
Vietnam
There is ample documentation
of the role the Vatican and Cardinal Spellman, along with the Dulles
Brothers played in supporting the French Catholics in Indo China and
influencing President Kennedy to support the devote Catholic President
Diem. in the civil war against the "anti-Christ Communist"
of the North. Many leftists referred to the war as, "Spellman’s
war."
Cardinal Spellmen made frequent
trips to the war zone as the newly appointed Vicar of the American Armed
forces. He flew in Air Force planes and gave the impression that he
represented the Vatican there. To him the war was a we against them.
We being the church and the American forces the "Soldiers of Christ"
and they being the "Godless Communists." The almost Rasputin
hold the Cardinal had on the Kennedy family was the major influence
that put Diem in power. As we all know the war was lost and Vietnam
is a Communist country. As for Diem and his brother: they were both
shot after attending a Mass at Church of Saint Francis in Saigon. I
can’t recall who but someone said,. "Thus died two most devout
sons of Holy Mother Church.And with them died the political regime they
had attempted to impose for her sake upon an unwilling non-Catholic—even
non-Christian—nation."Results…All US Forces KIA in
Vietnam = 58,169The Hanoi government revealed on the twentieth anniversary
of the war that the true civilian casualties of the Vietnam War were
2,000,000 in the north, and 2,000,000 in the south. Military casualties
were 1.1 million killed and 600,000 wounded.Which side was God on?
Israel
While sitting at an outdoor
café table on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv Israel, the handsome
actor son of the then defense minister Dayon said {to paraphrase it
was years ago) that he didn’t think the Wailing wall, now the
Western wall, was worth the life or limb of any of his comrades. He
said that he calls himself a Jew because it is the only rational for
taking someone else’s land, water and resources.
I said, Then even though
you do not call yourself religious, you still claim that as a person
with a Jewish mother God gave you the land. He told me that the Jews
escaping from the holocaust had no other choice and they convinced themselves
that God, did indeed, give them the land. His mother Ruth admits in
her book that she furnished her home with confiscated Palestinian furniture.
I wondered how far is that from taking the gold out of the teeth of
the victims of Auschwitz. With God on your side you can see what you
want to see.
Students at Hebrew University
gave me the analogy of the Christians taking the land from the Natives
in America. They are right, but only if God is on your side can you
make two wrongs into a right.
Today the slaughter in the
area goes on. Jews are killing Muslims. Muslims are killing Jews. Christians
are killing Muslims, Shiites are killing Sunni’s, Muslims are
killing Buddhists and Catholics are killing Protestants and Protestants
are killing Catholics.
This week I intend to go
to a Catholic early mass and attend a protestant service later and during
the week go to a temple, mosque, synagogue and I will pray to all the
Gods PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS GOD DAMNED RELIGION BUSINESS BEFORE
IT WIPES US ALL OUT. Or is that the idea?
David Truskoff
is a second world war veteran and an author. His blog is
www.erols.com/suttonbear