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How about really putting Christ back into Christmas this year.

December 1, 2024 By Bob Kinsey

How about really putting Christ back into Christmas this year.

Dr. ML King stated  that, ” A nation that spends more on the military and war than it does on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death” (1967) and,  “The choice is not between  nonviolence and violence,  but between non-violence and non existence” (April 1968).

Both corporate parties accept the framing of the world as a competitive battle between Nation-States and Corporations for bigger pieces of wealth and security to  be obtained and maintained with massive military spending and endless war.   Thus they justify flowing more than half the national budget to “National Defense.” Does anyone remember that the Germans disastrously  bought  into this ideology that the chief and most noble activity of the state (Homeland) is war and dominance.

By 1999, 9 years after the “end of the Cold War”  the US Space Command could publish a Vision 2020 piece (at taxpayer expense) declaring, “US Space Command–Dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect US national interests and investment.  Integrating Space Forces into warfighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict.”   After signing treaties supposed to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons we have committed to a $1.5 Trillion for “modernizing our nuclear weapons complex. No vote among citizens was taken about this commitment of the Defense budget to such domination of Global Affairs, or the assumption that per-emptive war is in line with American values. The commitment to an International Rule of Law via a United Nations and Treaty Law has been labelled “snowflake”. Jesus of Nazareth and his message of Love has been sold out to the purveyors of so-called “Christian” nationalism.

It seems appropriate to spend time at the Advent of the “Holiday Season” when Christians celebrate the coming of the “Prince of Peace” and the Spirit of the Season is supposed to be of Giving rather than Getting, that we examine how deeply our commitment to violence, war fighting and dominance  has penetrated our thinking, our spending, our priorities as a nation, state and city,  and our acceptance of a permanent state of warfare–economic and military in nature at the expense of the planet and other people’s aspirations.

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Disarmament Quotes

Viewing Trinity Test July 16,1945: "Now we are all Sons of Bitches"

Kenneth BainbridgeDeputy Director Manhatten Project

“Everything I did at Kings Bay was a result of my faith and my commitment to challenge the idols whose only purpose is to destroy human life on an unimaginable scale. I went to Kings Bay to use my body to refuse to bow down to these idols. I went to try to bring attention to the idolatry that it is requiring of our nation and its people. I went in a spirit of prayer and repentance. I went in hope that this witness might invite other people to reflect on the obscenity and on the idolatry that it is before God.”

Liz McAlisterKings Bay Protestor 2019

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending he sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." --spoken to the American Society of Newspaper Editors 1953

Dwight EisenhowerUS President 1953-1961

We are prone to self-righteousness if we call ourselves peacemakers, and yet do not perceive how the peace issue cuts through all the economic and social issues that we often try to keep separate. If the race for nuclear arms is encouraged by our fear of losing the affluent ways of life that we have taken for granted, then we must see how our fears and desires have left so many other human beings naked and hungry.

Malsolm Warford"The Church's Role in a Nuclear Age

A world free of the threat of nuclear weapons is necessarily a world devoid of nuclear weapons…. Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to humanity and our habitat…. Others subscribe to Churchill’s assertion ‘Peace is the sturdy child of terror.’ For me, such a peace is a wretched offspring, a peace that condemns us to live under a dark cloud of perpetual anxiety, a peace that codifies mankind’s most murderous instincts….The beast must be chained, its soul expunged, its lair laid waste.

General Lee ButlerFormer Commander, Strategic Air Command, April 28, 1996

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