re How to pray, etc.

[S.R. Prozak]

> Q:
> >>"There are no atheists in foxholes," Doug.
> 
> Good point.

Except it's not true.

> >>I think you can find enough 
> >>valid
> >>reasons to protest the war without fabricating a
> >>religious one. 
> 
> I just think it's interesting the way religion comes
> into play.  The image of US soldiers getting baptized
> on the eve of their invasion of an Islamic country is
> highly charged. And it sounds like there was some kind
> of group conversion going on, what an intense scene
> that must have been out there in the desert.

I think there are some people on this list who will shut down any criticism of their religions and cultures, no matter how racist, insular, paranoid, reactionary and destructive those cultures may be.

Colin Powell just delivered a major war speech to the AIPAC, a major Zionist lobby. This was noted by Syria in its press release stating a withdrawl from cooperation with the JCSA.

> Q:
> >>It's
> >>hardly like it's part of the official rhetoric,
> 
> We do hear the President openly calling on God and
> talking about prayer, creating the perception we're
> fighting for God and Christ. The President is the one
> who put the whole thing in the context of a "crusade",
> too. The religious trappings of this war are obvious. 

Not to mention the commercial origins of these religions.

> "There were men called 'army chaplains.' They preached
> inside some of these buildings. There were actually
> soldiers, dead now, who sat or stood, and listened.
> Holding on to what they could. Then they went out, and
> some died before they got back inside a
> garrison-church again. Clergymen, working for the
> army, stood up and talked to the men who were going to
> die about God, death, nothingness, redemption,
> salvation. It really happened. It was quite common."
> -Gravity's Rainbow, p. 693

And all the trees dead to spread the Word.


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