Timothy Birdnow

Dope Leo the Chicken Hearted:

When Pope Urban II called for the first Crusade he didn't do so for land or conquest or treasure but for the fact that the Turks massacred over 1400 pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem, peaceful people whose only crime was being Christian and not Muslim. Urban and his successors had finally had to face the fact that Islam cannot be satiated, you cannot make peace with them. Islam can only be restrained and Urban understood that. So he called for a Crusade, which would entail Christian kings and princes and other nobility (plus plenty of commoners) to go to Jerusalem to make a pilgrimage despite what the Turks wanted, and to do so with enough arms to secure the road to the Holy City.

Yet here we are with the post-modernist thinking that Man is inherently good and this little dustup between the U.S. and Iran is just an unfortunate spat that should be resolved over tea and cookies because we just don't understand each-other. That is Leo's thinking and he also thinks about Christ's admonition to not fight enemies but love them. That is true in a personal context but God Himself said that our leaders were given the power of the sword to punish evildoers and that is especially true of a terrorist nation like Iran, who did great evil leading up to this and would do far worse evil if allowed to do as it pleases.

Love thy enemies is a personal thing it does not apply to international relations.

That doesn't mean we let our foreign policy be simply in our own interests and screw everyone else. But it does mean that there are times for war and this was one of them; it meets Augustine of Hippo's Just War theory. Iran was behind the unprovoked attacks on Israel, and President Trump gave them ample warning. They refused to heed that and indeed stated plainly they were going to pursue an atomic bomb - and that they already had 11 such devices. Given that they are "12ers" who want to start Armageddon and would likely use those weapons when they were ready it was obvious that President Trump was averting a greater evil by launching tis war, a war many Iranian People have celebrated around the globe and even inside Iran.

So Leo's liberal knee jerk reaction is wholly unwarranted, yet he made it anyway because that is what liberals do; they never look at things like this with any context or nuance, only with a faux Christian simplicity that boils everything down to "war is bad" as though we didn't already know that. Naturally if this war was something the Left wanted Leo would suddenly find nuance and context.

If this weren't a just war no war is. The Iranian mullahs have been waging war against the United States and Israel since 1979, and they have murdered countless innocents in their quest to wipe out the "crusader" state of Israel. They don't do it like soldiers either but creep around and stab people in the backs, using the dirtiest and most treacherous style of warfare imaginable. They have killed many innocents and plan to kill a great many more. Their own people hate them and feel oppressed, and in fact they just murdered 40,000 of their own for daring to protest the regime. How can you find some sort of moral parity here? Yet Leo seems to do so with ease.

No sir; when Leo meets his Maker he will be asked to justify his statements here, and God will ask him why he let the innocent suffer under the heel of not just Islam but of the Iranian apocalyptic horror. WE as Christians, are duty bound to render aid to the Iranian People rather than excuse and give comfort to the oppressors in dark robes and long beards. God will demand Leo give an accounting. Leo could help to end the Iranian nightmare if he chooses, but he refuses to so choose because he is a Progressive Christian and the whole world is but Barney the Dinosaur to him. His is the most gutless, myopic, and cowardly form of Christianity one could imagine.

We are in a largely leaderless world and this Pope contributes to the spiritual and moral vacuum that has infected the Western World. His is the palsied hand that steers the ship into the rocks.

It's time for people like Pope Leo to grow up. The Apostle Paul admonished the church of Corinth, the one he helped get their starts, chastising them for:

I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

1Corinthians 3:2

A mature Christianity would understand how this is supposed to work but Leo is still drinking milk, absorbing nothing but the first baby steps of the Christian faith. You have to understand the difference between love and stupidity.

Dope Leo is the latter, I fear.

Leo made this imbecilic claim

Did the Second World War fail to resolve problems in Europe? While it left a power vacuum that the Soviets filled (causing a host of problems itself) the war definitely ended the scourge of Naziism and the murdering of innocents, particularly Jews. Wars very often do indeed solve problems. The United States was born of a war that solved our British problem, and so too did the War of 1812. The Mexican War certainly solved our problems with Mexico. The Civil War ended slavery in the U.S. and led to the enfranchisement of black people across a continent. I don't see any communists in Granada. Rome solved it's Carthage problem by wiping the whole city out. Greece solved her Persia problem by winning the war against Xerxes. I could go on but the point is made; wars can and do solve problems all the time. But Leo is just a liberal who buys into these shibboleths. Anyone who actually believes this "war solves nothing" slogan is a dope. 

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