RE: The love of a God
March 19, 2021 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2021 at 5:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 19, 2021 at 11:21 am)Angrboda Wrote:(March 19, 2021 at 8:03 am)Five Wrote: He is such a lovely person, despite his ailments and spending a good portion of time in a wheelchair, he is cheerful, with heart of gold. I struggle being a dedicated anti-theist, because I believe religion and faith is harmful but I cannot destroy or attack the faith of someone I care about. Not to their face, anyway. So, I decided to come here instead to get it off my chest.
It's a funny thing, but misfortune tends to bring out the best in us. Maybe God isn't involved, but there seems to be a kernel of truth obscured by the religious explanation.
Immediately reminds me of a line in warnocks floor speech - that he believed that democracy was the political enactment of a spiritual idea. The sacred worth of all human beings.
Without investing too much into any of those terms - it's broadly relatable content and...something that's there. Now, he prefaced this with the qualifier, as a man of faith - but it's unlikely to be the case that should a man like warnock no longer believe in a god or a religion - he would abandon belief in that sacred truth - or even suffer a diminishment of it's sacred value as he perceives it. It's a true article that a religious explication surrounds.
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!
