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- Holy Wars
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Click hereINTRO: I've spent a lot of time as a relief worker in war zones and, as well as hating them, I hate the hypocrisy of those who excuse them. I'm currently recovering from injuries sustained etc. So this is personal - forgive me.
HOLY WARS
WARS: Fill churches faster
than preaching ever can;
control the population-growth
a great deal better than
the best-intentioned working
of a contraceptive plan.
WARS: stimulate economies,
or so we're often told
by those who make their livings
from the items that they've sold
to convert some shattered bodies
into vast reserves of gold.
WARS: have innate abilities
to loosen family ties
and, generally, are good if you
ignore the 'wheres' and 'whys' -
and whether God has time to cry
for every child who dies...
and why, when fighting starts,
He doesn't nip it in the bud
and chooses to ignore the prayers
of those who think He should...
perhaps its 'cause WARS fill His Church
like preaching never could?
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- COMMENTS
Briteasealmost 9 years agoPerhaps "HE' doesn't exist. A figment of our imagination. (and maybe a bad one at that)
loveoverlustalmost 9 years ago..... Isn't it a Paradox? A War, that is Holy.
An Anomaly of our so called Evolution. Our Hollow Pride in being the most Intelligent of all Species.
Its nothing more than a link to our animal past. A Devolution of Humanity.
Has GOD ever been inside a Man made Shrine?
valeriefover 11 years agoHope your injuries aren't too serious and you'll soon be well again.
badgertooover 11 years agoI suppose you have to see - as you obviously have - the results that war brings to ordinary people, to understand that completely.
twelveooneover 11 years agonice return from the beginning. little comment on the org. you're pissed, but when you get some distance, lose some of the propaganda, i.e.
have innate abilities
to loosen family ties
and, generally, are good if you
you are telling, make it more individual, as in showing
read wilfred owen if you get a chance
guy will tear your flesh off your bones
demure101over 11 years agoIt's a great poem - a thought I suppose many a person entertains sometimes. On the religious aspect, after WWII Marelene Dietrich said, when asked if there was a God, 'No, there isn't - and if there is, he's completely meshugga.' (Or words to that intent.) Holy Wars indeed....
greenonionover 11 years agoand it has - with an innate rhythm - a power that cuts through so much of the rubbish spouted by leaders and religions when it comes to the dilemma of trying to justify the killing of ordinary men and women in the name of whatever cause.
