The War With No Official Name

Skip to comments.

Posted on 09/22/2024 5:09:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber

What made us change from fighting communism overseas to fighting it at home?

In 1953, I was 30 miles from Nagasaki, in the port city of Sasebo, Japan, on the way to Korea during the war there to keep communism from trampling every corner of Asia.

I did not know it at the time, but Nagasaki, the second city to be A-bombed in 1945, the last year of World War II, had a significant Christian population. It was a legacy of Japan’s 16th century opening of ports to foreign explorers and missionaries. Significantly, Nagasaki was once known as the “Capital of Christianity” in Japan. And so it was that on August 9, 1945 tens of thousands of men, women, boys, girls and babies vanished instantly from the face of the earth in one burst of an atomic bomb.

I bring these facts of history up to highlight the inevitable inhumanity of global warfare and to underline the importance of Christianity to people anywhere on earth. That importance evidently reflects something deep in the human spirit that overrides cultural and political considerations.

Fast-forwarding to present times, the importance of Christianity in political affairs may be sensed from the fact that faithful followers have been branded as terrorists by officials of government in this nation. Plainly this faith touches something much deeper than politics.

SNIP

Well, Karl Marx famously remarked that religion is the opium of the people, suggesting that it keeps people ignorant and in bondage. Not like communism, right? It seems to me that Marx overlooked an opiate of his own: the guaranty of equity. Equal shares of the products of labor for everyone is a goal that cannot pass the test of reality. Pursuing it has in fact been a source of misery for everyone...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.

1 posted on 09/22/2024 5:09:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber

To: MtnClimber

2 posted on 09/22/2024 5:09:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)

To: MtnClimber

3 posted on 09/22/2024 5:11:27 AM PDT by nopardons

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson