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Let us not be sidetracked. These are people killed not by Gore's global warming, or even by Friday's Cyclone Nargis - but by a filthy band of rapacious dictators who have left their people beggared and blinded, at the mercy of even the wind and waves.

And the world sits on its hands and watches. Time and time again.

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And those “misty eyed” generals exist and breath their filth upon the manipulated news briefs of the networks, the Huffington Post, Daily KOS and the DNC party HQs and voter roles.

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Let us not be sidetracked. These are people killed not by Gore's global warming, or even by Friday's Cyclone Nargis - but by a filthy band of rapacious dictators who have left their people beggared and blinded, at the mercy of even the wind and waves.

And the world sits on its hands and watches. Time and time again.

Thomas Sowell notes in Black Rednecks and White Liberals that although Christianity coexisted with slavery from the inception of Christianity to the 18th Century, Christianity became adamantly abolitionist over the 19th Century. And that no other religion, nor atheism, has ever motivated its adherents to risk their lives for the freedom of people to whom they are not related. Not in antiquity, and not in modern times. Only post-17th Century Christianity.

So why think that it could be any different today? If America and Britain don't do it, it won't be done. Not in Darfur, and not in Rowanda, and not in Burma. If the leading Christian powers don't intervene for the powerless, the powerless simply die. That's it.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, if you actually consider the words as written in the context of 1861, is essentially a recruiting jingle for the Union Army. To get men to volunteer to face a determined enemy firing real bullets in order to free the slaves in the South. You will search in vain for any such a composition for any such purpose, appealing to any deity other than Christ.