Saturday, December 24, 2011

War and Christmas


                Nothing better proves the American lust for war, the American celebration of war and therefore America’s doomed destiny as eventual victor-vanquished victims of war than this Christmas season.

                It is a supremely sad and uncanny irony that during the celebration of THE Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ (ostensibly our lord and savior), the most hyped movie is “Warhorse,”  the most advertised video games (as usual) are about bullets and bombs and that the favorite refrain of the super-religious is once again “the war on Christmas.”

                Until the masses of everyday American citizens  taste the reality of the wars  unleashed on the millions of innocents in places like Iraq and Vietnam, until they suffer, truly suffer the hard hits of the mystique which they now so readily venerate, they will continue  down , down, down the inevitable path towards that tragic future eventuality.

                The inability to learn from history, to exercise true faith in the teachings of “the reason for the season,”  to live in love, charity, mercy and peace, and to therefore reject war and all its glorifications makes a mockery of every  “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Season’s Greetings” cheer.

                Thank you God for Jesus, the greatest teacher of them all.  

                Maybe some day we'll learn.

1 comment:

Annegw said...

Gosh, I hope so.
Maybe we need to get back to the question, What Would Jesus Do?