In World War I, as happens to be true in most American wars, the Christian church leadership joined in the patriotic fervor with very un-Christ-like, nationalistic and racial/religious domination stances. Astonishingly, religious leaders on every side of the conflict truly believed that God was on their particular side. And so the pulpits all over Europe, including British, Scottish, French, Belgian, German, Austrian, Hungarian, Russian and Italian reverberated with flag-waving fervor, with clear messages to their doomed warrior-sons that it was their God-given Christian duty to march off to kill the equally brain-washed young Christian soldier enemies, who were also certain that God was on their side.
Five months into the miserable death and destruction of the perpetually dead-locked trench war (featuring the now-infamous mass slaughter via artillery, machine gun and poison gas weaponry), the first Christmas of the war on the Western Front came around.
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I have been buying classic books for the community center’s library and have a large backlog of reading. However, I did finish “All Quiet on the Western Front” last month. Based on the information concerning WWI trench warfare in France, the above story was a bright spot on humanity.
I hope that people read the entire article above and reflect on this paragraph:
This unique story of war resistance needs to be retold over and over again if our modern-era of false flag-generated wars of empire and corporate domination are to be effectively de-railed. These never-ending wars – always followed by armed occupations that inevitably generate armed resistance and revolt later – are fought by naïve but thoroughly indoctrinated, macho adolescents – many of whom are from devout Christian families. These not quite emotionally mature adolescents are at high risk of becoming spiritually damaged by active engagement in the “killing fields”. Indeed, combat soldiers are often doomed to a life overwhelmed by the realities of combat-induced PTSD (or sociopathic personality disorder), with suicidality, homicidality, loss of religious faith, traumatic brain injuries, and even neurological and autoimmune disorders because of the Pentagon’s aggressive over-vaccination agendas (often with experimental, poorly tested, fast-tracked vaccines, usually injected without informed consent as a part of some secret biodefense weapons research project.
Why are we fighting wars to generate money and power for these people who believe we are nothing more than fodder? I would like to ask why we do not come together as people instead of countries? I am not talking about borders; I am talking about building our own countries for our children’s future instead of burying or enslaving them.
What if we started in our own backyards and told the evil tyrants in Washington, D.C. that not only will we not follow them, we will fight them in the name of the Lord to restore light instead of their darkness?
David DeGerolamo
From an unlikely source: Sabaton, a Swedish metal band, produced the following music video which is quite something to experience:
“Christmas Truce”
Pretty cool. i think Christ- mas is to be more than one day or a season, YAH willing.
Perhaps the masses need to say i will not comply with all the nudging and all the lies and propaganda being spread 24:7.
And this one,,,, kinda long at 13 minutes,,,,, Joyeux Noel,,,,
I hope that we as individual Americans stop to think before allowing/encouraging our young to enlist in the armed forces.
Sadly, especially if they are White, it is evident to any with a functional brain that our government hates and has contempt for us, is replacing us with the world’s trash surging daily through our Southern border (facilitated by our very own DHS and other agencies), while our Border Patrol opens the gates, makes sandwiches for the illegals, wipes baby butts and hands out $5K renewable Visa cards, water and bus tickets to allow them to disappear into our Heartland.
Not to pick vegetables or to “flee tyranny.” Not hardly!
Note that, when people want to immigrate and establish a quality life in another country, they bring their wives and children; when they come to make war they come alone.
For this dubious government, our young should volunteer? Local, yes; State, probably; Regional, unlikely; FedGov, NFW (at least in its present, stratospherically, malignantly and stupendously evil state). NFW.
Europe destroyed herself in the Great War of 1914-1918. The old order monarchies (who were related) and empires fell away to communism, socialism, and eventually nazi-ism. Borders were redrawn. Several generations of Europe’s men were senselessly slaughtered depriving their families, communities, nations, and the world of their human potential. Young women were told to expect to spend their lives in spinsterhood because there simply were no young men left to marry. The Treaty of Versailles guaranteed the next war and ushered in the start of world government. America was needlessly drawn into the conflict. The Christmas truce demonstrated, if only for a brief moment, the men who did the fighting and dying recognized their humanity and brotherhood among senseless of it all and tried to do something about it. It is a tragedy that those in command were too blind to see and too cowardly to stop the madness.
Such is man’s fate, I guess.
When will they ever learn?
Joyeux Noël.
I watched a recent documentary which stated the US WW1 troops never got the bonus they were promised from the government
You might want to look up the Bonus Army for details.
Bonus Army – Wikipedia
A snip: Aftermath
Joe Angelo, a decorated hero from the war who had saved Patton’s life during the Meuse-Argonne offensive on September 26, 1918, approached him the day after to sway him. Patton, however, dismissed him quickly. This episode was said to represent the proverbial essence of the Bonus Army, each man the face of each side: Angelo the dejected loyal soldier; Patton the unmoved government official unconcerned with past loyalties.
NEVER assume the military will not attack you on orders.
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The following is a link to a song sung by John McClutchen on the winter solstice album. It is by far the most heart wrenching ode to the Christmas Truce I’ve come across. I play it every Christmas morning that in these times of manipulation and deception that there are still some universal truths.
Enjoy.