Posted on 09/22/2024 5:09:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
What made us change from fighting communism overseas to fighting it at home?
In 1953, I was 30 miles from Nagasaki, in the port city of Sasebo, Japan, on the way to Korea during the war there to keep communism from trampling every corner of Asia.
I did not know it at the time, but Nagasaki, the second city to be A-bombed in 1945, the last year of World War II, had a significant Christian population. It was a legacy of Japan’s 16th century opening of ports to foreign explorers and missionaries. Significantly, Nagasaki was once known as the “Capital of Christianity” in Japan. And so it was that on August 9, 1945 tens of thousands of men, women, boys, girls and babies vanished instantly from the face of the earth in one burst of an atomic bomb.
I bring these facts of history up to highlight the inevitable inhumanity of global warfare and to underline the importance of Christianity to people anywhere on earth. That importance evidently reflects something deep in the human spirit that overrides cultural and political considerations.
Fast-forwarding to present times, the importance of Christianity in political affairs may be sensed from the fact that faithful followers have been branded as terrorists by officials of government in this nation. Plainly this faith touches something much deeper than politics.
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Well, Karl Marx famously remarked that religion is the opium of the people, suggesting that it keeps people ignorant and in bondage. Not like communism, right? It seems to me that Marx overlooked an opiate of his own: the guaranty of equity. Equal shares of the products of labor for everyone is a goal that cannot pass the test of reality. Pursuing it has in fact been a source of misery for everyone...
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Since when did opposing communism in a constitutional republic make you an enemy of the state?
BTTT
On paper, we are a republic and always have been.
In reality, we stopped being a republic a long, long time ago. It’s an oligarchy and the laws don’t matter.
The Golden rule...
He who has the gold makes the rules!
Same as it ever was...
“The War With No Official Name”
Biden calls it MAGA.
Since around 2008, but it hasn’t been popular to oppose Communism here since around 1990. Communism is a poor word, they have gone by other names: modernists, anarchists, the labor movement, progressives, socialists... it is really a spiritual battle that manifests as a political one.
The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate is in direct opposition to The Ten Commandments.
“Thou shall not steal”
“Thou shall not covet”
Anyone who still supports the Democrats has an evil and criminal heart, mind and soul.
Nagasaki had the only significant Christian community in Japan. It was called the Christian capital of Japan. Our bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 decimated this community.
When the plane carrying the bomb took off, was not Nagasaki, which ended up being ground zero, one of many fallback targets?
It goes without saying that Nagasaki’s status as the Christian capital of Japan should have been the basis of a deliberate decision to take it off the list of fallback targets.
The fact that it remained on that list certainly raises the spectre of anti-Christian (communist/pagan) infiltration.
And Pyongyang was once the Christian capital of Korea, oh well, things change, don’t they?
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