General Patton on Pacifism and Preaching Pacifism from the Pulpit

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[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."...

[Gamecock]

Exactly the kind of thinking that made him a great general.

[freedom9]

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[Fiddlstix]

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[MonroeDNA]

I LOVE Patton!!!

[Reagan Man]

General Patton versus God and the Pulpit

Now thats a war!

[Licensed-To-Carry]

Everytime I read quotes from Patton, I hear George C. Scott's voice.

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

[medic]

General Patton- one of my favorites. He wouldn't like today's way of waging war.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Patton was one tough cookie. This guy is the very embodiment of old-school.

[BamaFan69]

I love it... We could use a Patton in Iraq...

[prairiebreeze]

"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

[VOA]

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!".

[Mr. Mojo]

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.

[gcruse]

Reporter: General Patton, I see you keep a bible on your bedstand. Tell me, General, do you read it!

Patton: Every god damned night!

[medic]

We sure could. And desert warfare was right up his alley. We'd be in Baghdad by now.

[annyokie]

Cool General Patton stuff here:

http://users.aol.com/ruddbaron/memorial/patton.html

[John H K]

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.

[Teetop]

We need the good General back on all media outlets right now! He would set them straight very quickly.

God rest his soul!

[JoeSchem]

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 . . . .

[Gamecock]

Think about this: General, you can't ask about a soldier's sexual orientation.....

[Mr. Mojo]

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.