Christmas 2001 by Arthur Miller

> Christmas 2001 by Arthur Miller
>
> posted by Reverend Chuck0 on Monday December 24 2001 @ 12:56PM PST
>
> CHRISTMAS 2001
>
> The day of giving this year I seem to have more questions than
> answers. I am not a Christian, for I cannot see your Messiah Jesus
> through the layers of deceit and decadence that his followers place
> before his image.
>
> I cannot understand his well-off followers who hoard such great wealth
> in shameful gluttony, all the while millions of children have but one
> wish upon Christmas day, a real meal.
>
> I don't understand why great mansions are built for a few followers of
> Christ, while millions are without any homes at all.
>
> I don't understand Christians at war. Two-thousand years of blood
> soaked lands in the name of the Prince of Peace. Christians are so
> intoxicated by bloodshed that they compete with each other to build
> greater weapons of mass murder, even weapons that can kill every last
> human upon this earth. On 9-11 people of one religion murdered over
> 3,000 innocent people and the Christians responded by murdering over
> 3,000 innocent people with their bombs, all this in the name of God.
> Is the point of human religion the slaughter of the innocents?
>
> I don't understand how these folks can give praise to their God and
> then turn around and foul and destroy their God's creation, the earth.
>
> I realize that these Christians believe that their faith is superior
> to all others. This they show by committing genocide against those
> they view as having lesser faiths. The country of the USA, which some
> like to call a Christian country, was created by the blood of
> genocide. How many American Christians stop to think, upon the day of
> their Messiah's birthday, that they very land they live on was gained
> to them by acts of mass murder?
>
> No I am not a Christian, nor a Muslim, Jew, Hindu or Buddhist, for all
> the large organized religions have shamed themselves and their Gods
> with blood lust and greed.
>
> I'll spend my Christmas day with children who have yet to decide which
> of life's paths they shall walk. For it is with in them that I find
> any meaning in this day.
>
> Arthur J. Miller
>
> Below is an old Wobbly [Industrial Workers of the World] song that
> expresses a lot of what I am feeling but can't put into such fine
> words.
>
> CHRISTIANS AT WAR
>
> Words by John F. Kendrick
>
> Tune: Onward Christian Soldiers
>
> First published in the IWW
>
> Songbook in 1913
>
> Onward Christian soldiers! Duty's way is plain;
>
> Slay your Christian neighbors, or by them be slain.
>
> Pulpiteers are spouting effervescent swill,
>
> God above is calling you to rob and rape and kill.
>
> All your acts are sanctified by the lamb on high;
>
> If you love the Holy Ghost, go murder, pray and die.
>
> Onward Christian soldiers! Rip and tear and smite!
>
> Let the gentle Jesus bless your dynamite.
>
> Splinter skulls with shrapnel, fertilize the sod;
>
> Folks who do not speak your tongue deserve the curse of God.
>
> Smash the doors of every homes, pretty maidens seize;
>
> Use your might and sacred right to treat them as you please.
>
> Onward Christian soldiers! Blighting all you meet;
>
> Trample human freedom under pious feet.
>
> Praise the Lord whose dollar sign dupes his favored race!
>
> Make the foreign trash respect your bullion brand of grace.
>
> Trust in mock salvation, serve as tyrants' tools;
>
> History will say of you: "That pack of god damned fools!"
>
> [Moderator's Note: The author is an anarchist, Wobbly, editor of the
> "Bayou La Rose" newspaper and a shipyard worker.]
>
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