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Policy Shmolicy
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, March 9 2009, 20:27:09 (CET)
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How did we come to define “heroes” as armed soldiers who invade the homes and country of a people who never did a thing to us? Defending your home and family and, by extension, your country is a right, even a duty, recognized everywhere in the world. You aren’t a criminal, not even a murderer, for killing someone who trespasses on your land and seeks to harm you or your family.

How did the Iraqi people become “insurgents”? Who did they rise against if not the people attacking and occupying their homes? The puppet government installed by the United States is part and parcel of the occupying force....as much as Vichy was an arm of the Germans during WW II. It was an honorable thing to attack the Frenchmen and women who worked with Vichy....the Underground were the heroes, not the Vichy puppets.

The weird case of the nine year-old Brazilian girl who, along with her mother, was excommunicated from the Church for getting an abortion, while her rapist remains within the fold, and is forgiven, is a good example of Christian thinking....or rather of a perversion in thinking serving Church doctrine. No doubt mother and child lived in poverty....are they expected to serve the Church no matter the personal price?

The same habit of blaming the victim can be seen at work when the United States justifies itself for killing those who dare defend themselves....it isn’t the attacker, the rapist, who’s the villain....no, the victim is IF the victim dares fight back.

“Woman tears ears off man trying to rape her”....is presented to the Christian mind as only...”Woman tears ears off of man”. For which she is naturally condemned...as we would expect if she behaved in such a way without provocation. You’d think, however, that once we knew the provocation, we would see the woman’s “attack” in its proper context and think well of a woman who defended herself...or her children, But the provocation doesn’t matter to a Christian...just as the rape of the nine year-old isn’t the important think....much more important is the victim’s effort to heal herself, to get out from under the life-changing and soul-shattering violence the rapist imposed on her. But no, SHE is to blame, no matter what....just as the woman who fights back at her rapist is to blame...just as the Iraqis who defend their homes and families are to blame....it is NEVER the attacker, the instigator, the one who first commits the injustice that matters to Christians...all they care for is that they NOT BE STOPPED...or fought against...or get exactly what they deserve.



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