“Onward Christian Soldiers”, is a 19th century English hymn. The words were written by Sabine Baring Gould in 1871, and the music composed by Arthur Sullivan that same year. The hymn’s theme is taken from references in the New Testament to the Christians being a soldier for Christ.
The refrain states, “…Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before…”
Some of Christ’s soldiers have declared a mighty war and are making sure they wound, slay and leave no enemy standing.
The Christian soldiers consisting of the parents, students, and administration of the Itawamba Agricultural High School in the state of Mississippi, decided that different is not good. They must have assumed that Jesus just created card board copies of people, and any misfit was just a big mistake. So harboring all sorts of love thy neighbor the parents and students decided to have Constance McMillan a self identified Lesbian, attend a fake prom where she could wear her tuxedo and dance with her same sex date and not permeate the environment of good Christian youth with her wicked ways. Lie about a location, send the devil worshiper with an assortment of special needs kids (more misfits) to play amongst themselves and have salvation reign on the good souls of Christ’s true blood.
The soldiers of Christ, who recited how homosexuality is a sin, forgot the part of the Bible which speaks about lying. Seems war is tough and when you deem yourself a soldier for Christ you must do the dirty to others so they do not soil your soul first.
The Christian soldier in the U.S Senate, Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn is at his battle station again. He is once again protecting the children, (well the future children not the current children) by stalling the passage of a stopgap bill to extend jobless benefits. As a result of his Christ like efforts some people who have been out of work for more than six months (who have children right now), will temporarily lose unemployment benefits, with newly jobless people (who also have children right now) not eligible to sign up for generous health insurance subsides.
Senator Coburn does not want to burden future generations of children with the rewarding of compensation to those in this country who he defines as “… they would rather be unemployed than find a job, it’s easier to live of the doll of the Government…” The Senator wants to do the right thing and helping families now just does not equate to helping families in the future. The Senator has a penchant for finding unemployed people as lazy and non motivated. So as a soldier for Christ, the Senator believes that each and every good Christian (and in his eyes America is a Christian nation), should work, work, work even if there are too few jobs to have.
Hmmm, just wonder if we are waiting to save the next generation of children from the excesses of today, if those children of the unemployed will have enough resources to procreate at all? Where in the Bible does it say don’t help the needy now, wait a decade to do a good deed?
The good Christian soldiers of the Vatican are busy rallying around the Pope. They have their newest marketing tactic out and are claiming that the Pope is THE target of a ‘hate campaign’.
The Vatican soldiers claim that accusations of the Pope helping to cover up the actions of pedophile priests are part of an anti-Catholic “hate campaign” targeting the Pope for his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.
These soldiers of Christ were certainly quick on the draw to fire back a volley of shots when their perceived victim (the Pope) was maligned, but it took decades upon decades to open up their weaponry when the victims were just a bunch of kids.
The soldiers of Christ were immediately on battle field to support their comrade the Pope but where were the battalions, minions of soldiers for the past decades when the sons and daughters of America, Europe and Africa were being molested?
And who has suffered most, the victims of sexual abuse or the Pope who just looked the other way?
I suppose when Jesus said turn the other check, his soldiers did so when it came to the innocence of children.
“…Onward Christian soldiers, marching on to war…”War is certainly ugly!
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