Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Caption Time! (Military Weapon, Spiritual Weapon)
Yahoo! (AFP Photo) ^ | 11/7/2004 | n/a

Posted on 11/08/2004 12:13:02 PM PST by Pyro7480


Fallujah prayer : A rosary hangs off the barrel of a machinegun mounted on a Bradley belonging to the 1st Cavalry Regiment 5th Battalion positioned on the outskirts of Fallujah. (AFP/Patrick Baz)


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: catholic; gun; iraq; military; rosary; solider
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-53 next last
To: Canticle_of_Deborah
it's an old WW-II standard. here are the lyrics. enjoy
21 posted on 11/08/2004 12:27:04 PM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480

"The path of the righghteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you."


22 posted on 11/08/2004 12:28:14 PM PST by SgtSki
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480

Remember Lepanto!


23 posted on 11/08/2004 12:29:12 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480
Real Christians understand that the God of the old testament is the same as the God of the New..and His name is God the Son...the Lord Jesus Christ...

When Jesus walked the earth as a son of man...the one person he came across who Jesus
said had the most amount of faith of anyone he had ever come across was a Roman Centurion

Now if you have ever read up on Roman Centurions..the real ones who came up through the ranks...you would also know these guys were the baddest of the bad...having survived lead and conquered many many of Romes fiercest enemies before attaining such rank...

Jesus only cautioned soldiers with one extra command..and that was to not extort money from those they were over...Soldiers be content with your wages...other than that Jesus said nothing about the profession of warrior..being good or bad...only individual soldiers were good or bad..dependent upon their faith..

Jesus admonished man that whatever it was that was good to do..do it with all your might..
If you are going to be a soldier...the Lord says...give it all you got...

Stay fresh outta bubble gum...

IMO

24 posted on 11/08/2004 12:33:24 PM PST by joesnuffy ("The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it." Horatio Seymour)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wideawake

Amen, wideawake!

I LOVE St. Michael. His name means "Who is like God?" and he's the patron saint of soldiers. Very appropriate prayer for this thread. Thank you and God bless and protect our soldiers!


25 posted on 11/08/2004 12:34:29 PM PST by LibSnubber (liberal democrats are domestic terrorists)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480

Powerful photo... thanks for posting.


26 posted on 11/08/2004 12:41:09 PM PST by maggief
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480

(Paraphrasing Pope Leo XIII for modern times):

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the diabolical insanity of Islam. May God rebuke them; we humbly pray: and do thou O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust down to hell Satan and his seventh-century death cult that spreads like a virus through the world seeking the ruin of human civilization. Amen.


27 posted on 11/08/2004 12:44:09 PM PST by broadsword (Weren't there a couple of giant Buddhist statues in Afghanistan? What happened to them?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480
"At the present time, the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming a hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still the grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West that has ceased to be Christian and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world power. Moslem writers say, "When the locust swarms darken vast countries, they bear on their wings these Arabic words: 'We are God's host, each of us has ninety-nine eggs, and if we had a hundred, we should lay waste the world with all that is in it.'"

Fulton J. Sheen, "The World's First Love", p. 201, © 1952

28 posted on 11/08/2004 1:00:14 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: A.A. Cunningham

"How can you shoot women and children???"

"Easy, you just don't lead them as much."


29 posted on 11/08/2004 1:04:56 PM PST by BradyBug (Holy Rolling Redneck)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: A.A. Cunningham
...the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming a hatred against Christianity itself...

It always was. Islam IS hatred for every non-Muslirat on earth and especially any other religion, and most especially hatred for Christianity and Judaism. It's time to exterminate Islam once and for all.
30 posted on 11/08/2004 1:06:12 PM PST by broadsword (Weren't there a couple of giant Buddhist statues in Afghanistan? What happened to them?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: A.A. Cunningham

Wow, that's quite a quote. He's among the great prophets of the return of Islam, like Hiliare Belloc and John Rhys Davies' dad.


31 posted on 11/08/2004 1:07:56 PM PST by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: broadsword

you nailed exactly what must be done. ALL OF THEM.


32 posted on 11/08/2004 1:18:10 PM PST by Retired Navy Chief (Palestinian scum don't deserve to live)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: wideawake
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.

Like the Rosary itself, the prayer to St. Michael is an armament for spiritual warfare, not a talisman for human conflicts, especially those engineered by evil or deluded men to advance earthly utopias. My prayers are with the ordinary fighting men who seek comfort in Our Lady's protection -- but not for those who cynically exploit and misappropriate the faith of Christians.

Ephesians 6:12 For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

33 posted on 11/08/2004 1:22:19 PM PST by Romulus (Why change Horsemen in the middle of the Apocalypse?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: BradyBug

That's a foul thing to say.


34 posted on 11/08/2004 1:24:07 PM PST by Romulus (Why change Horsemen in the middle of the Apocalypse?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Romulus
Were the soldiers at Lepanto wrong to pray the Rosary before battle? Were they wrong to invoke St. Michael? Was St. Pius V to erect a commemorative shrine to Our Lady of Victory?

Or has your opposition to the Iraq intervention put you into a permanent pique of self-righteousness?

The enemy our troops face at this hour is the same enemy Juan of Austria faced.

35 posted on 11/08/2004 1:26:39 PM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480
No Quarter! Allawi said it himself today.

Kill all of these barbaric animals. Let God sort them out.

It's payback time for those four security contractors that they mutilated and hung from the bridge!

Have You Forgotten?

36 posted on 11/08/2004 1:40:15 PM PST by fhillary2 (Native Virginian)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wideawake

1. It's bad form to change the subject just because you've been shown to be wrong.

2. Accusations of self-righteousness are always spiritually dangerous to those who deal in them, because they insidiously invite the one who offers them into the role of Accuser.

3. No it isn't. Don Juan defended Europe from an unprovoked aggressor.


37 posted on 11/08/2004 1:47:45 PM PST by Romulus (Why change Horsemen in the middle of the Apocalypse?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: Romulus
It's bad form to change the subject just because you've been shown to be wrong.

The subject was, originally, that the Rosary is a great help to our troops in the field, including my younger brother. You changed the subject to imply that our troops pray only as some kind of winning talisman without any attention to the spiritual aspects of warfare.

Accusations of self-righteousness are always spiritually dangerous to those who deal in them, because they insidiously invite the one who offers them into the role of Accuser.

A tautologous statement. You implied that you alone have sufficient discernment to understand the full scope of the prayer to St. Michael.

No it isn't. Don Juan defended Europe from an unprovoked aggressor.

And the US is defending Iraq from an unprovoked aggressor - unless it is your opinion that this Zarqawi character has some kind of justifiable grievance against our troops.

Let's brush up on the details of Lepanto - the Turk felt that he was provoked into war by the aggressive and disrespectful activities of the Venetians.

I'll add that Lepanto is right off the coast of Aetolia and was therefore well within the Turk's territory - taking the fight to the Turk in his own waters looks suspiciously like a preemptive act of aggression.

38 posted on 11/08/2004 2:02:50 PM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: wideawake
The subject was, originally,…

…the prayer to St. Michael. Which you posted in your first appearance on this thread, as response to the photo posted at the top of the thread. I found that a misappropriation, and said so.

I’ll be glad to include your brother in my prayers, but your rhetorical conceit of introducing him as an argumentum ad misericordiam is duly noted.

You …imply that our troops pray only as some kind of winning talisman…

Not at all. I imply that you seemed to endorse its use as such. I'm glad to know you were thinking of our soldiers purely in terms of spiritual warfare, though you chose an odd way to express it.

A tautologous statement…

I might have pointed a finger at you, but consciously chose instead to offer an indirect observation.

You implied that you alone have sufficient discernment to understand the full scope of the prayer to St. Michael.

Not at all, though I do believe you’ve misappropriated it for a secular purpose. What I did imply – what I said, actually – was that dealing in accusation is spiritually dangerous because it subverts conversion and reconciliation. It hardens the habitual sinner, but what’s even worse is that it puts the accuser in a “satanic” role. It’s – literally – diabolical. I think you understand what I mean.

the Turk felt that he was provoked into war by the aggressive and disrespectful activities of the Venetians…taking the fight to the Turk in his own waters looks suspiciously like a preemptive act of aggression.

The difference being that provoked or not, the Turk really was planning an attack on Europe, while Iraq was not.

39 posted on 11/08/2004 2:48:20 PM PST by Romulus (Why change Horsemen in the middle of the Apocalypse?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: Romulus
I found that a misappropriation, and said so.

In other words, then, I was not changing the subject when I challenged your analysis.

I’ll be glad to include your brother in my prayers, but your rhetorical conceit of introducing him as an argumentum ad misericordiam is duly noted.

Hardly a rhetorical conceit - instead empirical evidence that I know a soldier personally and I know how and why he prays, and what he prays for.

I'm glad to know you were thinking of our soldiers purely in terms of spiritual warfare, though you chose an odd way to express it.

No, I'm thinking in terms of the whole soldier, body and soul. His righteous desire for honorable victory over evil men and his desire to attain that victory without giving in to the spiritual enemy and adopting the satanic attitude and tactics of his adversary. His desire to remain whole and hale, while accepting any hardship, even death itself, if it is God's will.

His desire for the grace of conducting himself with honor, fortitude and mercy.

I might have pointed a finger at you, but consciously chose instead to offer an indirect observation.

Kudos.

Not at all, though I do believe you’ve misappropriated it for a secular purpose.

Well, that's clearly a conclusion you jumped to on the basis of zero evidence.

What I did imply – what I said, actually – was that dealing in accusation is spiritually dangerous because it subverts conversion and reconciliation. It hardens the habitual sinner, but what’s even worse is that it puts the accuser in a “satanic” role. It’s – literally – diabolical. I think you understand what I mean.

I do indeed.

The difference being that provoked or not, the Turk really was planning an attack on Europe, while Iraq was not.

All that was known for certain was that the Turk planned war on Venetian colonies which were asserting claims within his territory, and that he was prepared to carry the war to Venice itself if the Venetians did not comply with his requests.

In other words, the Turk was making war on his own subjects, subjects who believed they had a legitimate grievance.

Kind of like Kurds in northern Iraq.

The fact is, the Emperor did not care why the Turk had such large forces in the near vicinity of his allies and whether the Turk's intentions only pertained to internal security.

There was a chance to smash the Turk as a regional naval power and that chance was taken and it may well have saved Europe from much worse consequences.

Likewise, I think it did not matter that Hussein claimed to only be interested in his own borders while he was killing tens of thousands of his citizens, suggesting that he had WMD capability and that he regularly menaced the US' ally Israel.

There was a chance to smash Hussein as a regional military power and we took the chance.

40 posted on 11/08/2004 3:07:54 PM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-53 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson