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General Patton on Pacifism and Preaching Pacifism from the Pulpit
http://www.ycsi.net/users/reversespins/pattonpacify.html ^ | unknown | Patton

Posted on 03/30/2003 4:04:38 PM PST by Gamecock

"Gen. Patton did not have kind words for those who could not face death. He had harsh words for the religious leaders who opposed the efforts of the military and preached, "Thou shall not kill."

Gen. Patton called these types, "pulpit killers!" He commented, "These pulpit killers that go around saying that the Bible says that man dare not kill causes the death of many thousands of good soldiers. Damn little those pulpit killers know about the Bible. They know even less about the way God works. They should read all of the Bible, not just the part they like! God never hesitated to kill. God never hesitates to kill when one man or any race of man needed to be punished. God helped David kill Goliath, didn't he? How about Noah and the Ark? All of the rest of the people were killed in the flood! God took the blame for this mass murder. How about the Red Sea which opened up long enough for one race to escape and another race to be killed.

Don't talk to me about God not permitting man to kill. War means that we have to kill people. That's all there is to it. It is a sin not to kill if we are serving on God's side. There is no other way to win. Wars must be won for God's sake. He has a part in every war! The quicker we can kill the enemy, the quicker we can go home and listen to the pulpit killers tell us what we did wrong. If it wasn't for us, those pulpit idiots would be shot for standing in their own pulpits. Our task is to kill the enemy before we are killed."...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: leftistbedwetters; pacifists; patton; wrules
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Exactly the kind of thinking that made him a great general.
1 posted on 03/30/2003 4:04:38 PM PST by Gamecock
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2 posted on 03/30/2003 4:07:41 PM PST by freedom9
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3 posted on 03/30/2003 4:08:12 PM PST by Fiddlstix
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To: Gamecock
I LOVE Patton!!!
4 posted on 03/30/2003 4:09:04 PM PST by MonroeDNA (An American Black Muslim traitor, acting on his religeous beliefs, tried to take out the top brass)
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To: Gamecock
General Patton versus God and the Pulpit

Now thats a war!

5 posted on 03/30/2003 4:09:47 PM PST by Reagan Man
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To: Gamecock
Everytime I read quotes from Patton, I hear George C. Scott's voice.

BTW, it really means "Thou shall not Murder".

6 posted on 03/30/2003 4:11:18 PM PST by Licensed-To-Carry (Home of the Osamastopper.)
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To: Gamecock
General Patton- one of my favorites. He wouldn't like today's way of waging war.
7 posted on 03/30/2003 4:12:14 PM PST by medic
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To: Gamecock
Patton was one tough cookie. This guy is the very embodiment of old-school.
8 posted on 03/30/2003 4:15:26 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: medic
I love it... We could use a Patton in Iraq...
9 posted on 03/30/2003 4:15:37 PM PST by BamaFan69
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To: Gamecock
"It seems to me a certainty that the fatalitic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women as the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing."

General George S. Patton

A little OT I admit, but another great observation from Patton

Prairie
10 posted on 03/30/2003 4:16:17 PM PST by prairiebreeze (God Bless and Protect the Allied Troops. And their families here at home---they are soldiers too.)
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To: Gamecock
Gen. Patton called these types, "pulpit killers!"

IIRC, General Patton was a very observant Episcopalian.

In the "what if" spirit, if he were re-animated today, I'd tell most of the
folks presiding over the Episcopalian Church to "run for your lives...General Patton
is coming to cleanse the temple...and he ain't gonna' stop with turning over tables
and using a whip like Jesus did!".
11 posted on 03/30/2003 4:21:17 PM PST by VOA
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General Patton- one of my favorites. He wouldn't like today's way of waging war.

If Patton could be brought back from the dead and placed in charge of the Iraqi campaign Baghdad would currently be a pile of ash and Damascus would be in his sights.

12 posted on 03/30/2003 4:22:58 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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Reporter: General Patton, I see you keep a bible on your bedstand. Tell me, General, do you read it!

Patton: Every god damned night!
13 posted on 03/30/2003 4:23:37 PM PST by gcruse (If they truly are God's laws, he can enforce them himself.)
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We sure could. And desert warfare was right up his alley. We'd be in Baghdad by now.
14 posted on 03/30/2003 4:24:42 PM PST by medic
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To: Gamecock
Cool General Patton stuff here:

http://users.aol.com/ruddbaron/memorial/patton.html
15 posted on 03/30/2003 4:28:13 PM PST by annyokie (provacative yet educational reading alert)
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If Patton could be brought back from the dead and placed in charge of the Iraqi campaign Baghdad would currently be a pile of ash and Damascus would be in his sights.

Patton was appalled by the mass slaughter of civilians.

16 posted on 03/30/2003 4:29:27 PM PST by John H K
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We need the good General back on all media outlets right now! He would set them straight very quickly.

God rest his soul!
17 posted on 03/30/2003 4:30:44 PM PST by Teetop (democrats....... socialist.........whats the difference?)
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General Patton- one of my favorites. He wouldn't like today's way of waging war.

I disagree. Patton's most memorable statement was, "I want you to make the other guy die for his country." In a war where our kill ratio is a thousand to one (and maybe ten thousand to one), I think the spirit of Patton is alive and well. The time when a general could order a futile charge against entrenchments or machine gun emplacements and shrug off the resultant casualties as 'heroic sacrifice for one's country' is long past, and good riddance.

Now hand me my joystick, I see an Iraqi convoy coming . . . .

18 posted on 03/30/2003 4:33:02 PM PST by JoeSchem
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Think about this: General, you can't ask about a soldier's sexual orientation.....
19 posted on 03/30/2003 4:33:40 PM PST by Gamecock (IF YOU HAVE TO BE ONE, BE A BIG RED ONE! No Mission too Difficult! No Sacrifice too Great!)
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To: John H K
Patton certainly wouldn't intentionally target civvies, but neither would he shy away from inflicting collateral damage if it saved the lives of his troops and expedited victory. And since the majority of Saddam's troops - and Saddam himself - are in and around Baghdad, I'd imagine that the city would be an ugly place after he was done.
20 posted on 03/30/2003 4:36:05 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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