I've mentioned this before, but I'll say it again:
The bible may have a great many things to teach us about the people who wrote the bible, how they viewed themselves, others, and their environment, but expecting more from it is unfair to the authors or the text. Examining the text as a supporting document for an article of faith has led to people, or groups of people, assuming positions that range from quaintly ignorant, to malevolent in a benign sort of way, all the way up to the ridiculously absurd and genocidal.
The bible may have a great many things to teach us about the people who wrote the bible, how they viewed themselves, others, and their environment, but expecting more from it is unfair to the authors or the text. Examining the text as a supporting document for an article of faith has led to people, or groups of people, assuming positions that range from quaintly ignorant, to malevolent in a benign sort of way, all the way up to the ridiculously absurd and genocidal.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
