Today being Remembrance Day, we tend to focus on the service personnel who didn't come home - lest we forget .
Anyone in a war could have been killed - and then forever after remembered as 'dying to set us free'.
Thankfully most of the time most of them don't get that honour.
After all, they were never hired to meekly die to set humanity free , as Jesus meekly accepted death.
They weren't even hired to merely suggest the hint of force, if laws are broken, as policemen generally are hired : to daily carry a gun but generally never actually use that weapon during an entire career.
The wartime soldier were hired instead explicitly to use their guns, to kill other people (and hopefully come back alive) and thus win a war.
In WWII, in Canada, for example - 95% of these 'trained killers' came back alive.
Most of the people at home, during any war, get paid wages in a real sense to grow food for k-rations for tank crews, to built their tanks and tank shells and to pump up the oil that fuel those tanks .
Comparatively few earn their living building medical kits that one day might patch up ally and enemy tank crews alike.
So the Home Front too is called upon to kill others - albeit via indirect means.
Killing - not dying - is the whole point of war.
War is War and Jesus is Jesus : so let us not try too hard to intertwine the two ....
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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