Russia is weird and terrifying place that loves war so much that even their priests are blessing weapons. Well, what else would you expect from a nation that grew up in nightmarish playgrounds and went to schools like this…
Russia is weird and terrifying place that loves war so much that even their priests are blessing weapons. Well, what else would you expect from a nation that grew up in nightmarish playgrounds and went to schools like this…
How many different kinds of people throughout history have justified their actions by claiming God is on their side as they attacked other people?
Christianity and militarism are old bedfellows. It’s not only the Russians. The US armed forces are also full of religious lunatics – strangely, the Air Force in particular.
Picture #7, on the train, those are T34 tanks. They still use those??
Not funny but bloody sad that so called Christians bless war.patgetic
No defending the priests by any means… but I think if they don’t bless they will all suffer and die by the hands of their leader.
I remember seeing old pics of WW2 of church men blessing both sides before battle..
If these pictures aren’t staged,then they show some of the saddest, most hypocritical, actions of men (gender specificity intended).
@Susan Miller: my thought exactly
Well, Susan and Jane, there are quite a few women out there in uniform who consider themselves God-fearing and righteous, who will kill even civilians without a single qualm, and one of the commenters was right, our own US Air Force has more than you’d expect. They bombed civilian targets in Iraq without a qualm. Bloodthirstyness in the US military is not so prevalent among the enlisted, but the careerist women officers, they’re the worst.
I came on active duty as a US Army 2LT in 1977, the year DoD abolished the WACs and was on active duty for 11 years, then finished out in the USAR and retired in 1999. I watched the change in both our society and in the military. There’s something about being unchallenged at 20,000 ft. and everybody ‘down there’ looking like ‘insects’ ( or “rag heads,” “camel Jockeys,” and some other epithets that I won’t mention here) that brings out the worst in the flyboys and girls. My guess is the female officers feel they have to be more bloodthirsty and “harder” than the men in order to show they’re as big or worse “bad asses,” so they will be “taken seriously.” It’s not about patriotism with them, but proving women can kill just like men and therefore demonstrate they are the equal to (or superior to) men, the exact opposite of all the lecturing I and the rest of American men had to listen to during the late 1960’s through the 1990’s from the Women’s Liberation Movement, who castigated all men (how’s that for sexism) as being bloodthirsty animals, but when women got their hands on the levers of powers, they avowed that then “peace will guide the planet, and love will steer the stars.” What a load of bullshit. Anyone who has worked on Capitol Hill long enough will tell you, or even private industry, that the “queen bees” are more deadly than the males. I worked for one when I was a federal civilian with the Marines at Quantico, but I observed others in other agencies and services. So knock off this hypocritical crap about men, because you women are just as capable of murder — just take a look at how current TV programs that celebrate violent and amoral women, especially if they’re on the wrong side of the law. These programs are written and produced by, yes, you women. In fact, our prisons continue to fill up at an amazing rate with women vice men, who have plateaued out, so to speak.
And increasingly, women are committing capital crimes, vice the non-violent or less violent ones they historically committed. And we’re not talking about actions taken in self-defense. And finally, I give you the kill-crazy exemplars of The New American Woman, two Republican congresswomen, Boebart and Majorie Green, who worship gods made of metal (guns). They are your heroes/heroines, not mine. As for the Wonder Women, well, they are Marvel comic creations, not real women.
It should be noted one of the standing informal instructions the British SAS has in dealing with terrorists is “kill the women first,” because the women tend to be the most resistant to surrender, and more willing to fight to the death, based on the SAS’ experience.
It’s useless against Saint Javelin
Yeah, and that doesn’t even seem to help, since the Ukrainians are destroying tanks, etc.
That sort of ritual happens in many countries with deep cultural ties to catholocism.
It doesn’t give them any edge. I have yet to read of holy water stopping a bullet.
And Americans bless their golf clubs and motorcycles. Next.
besides keeping the peon tribes at bay, most religions are a scam. catholicism is the biggest one, by far. from muslims to little kids, nothing is safe from them
Response to Curt Smith supposedly LTC, USAR (ret.), etc., etc.
You being what you claim notwithstanding, the fact that MEN – I being one – have perpetrated the MAJORITY (almost ALL?) of barbarity in the world since time immemorial CANNOT be disputed.
ANYONE, like yourself, who tries to weasel out is either naive or misrepresenting.
That being said, a few women – VERY FEW compared to men – do join the military and will probably undertake whatever men in the military do. Also, there have been cases of female SS guards in Nazi concentration camps who were equally and in some cases more sadistic than men.
But that does NOT change the overall picture.
The rest of your rant is nothing more than a rant and the only thing it proves is whataboutism!!
Voilà des fonctionnaires de Dieu qui ont bien compris le message du Christ, ainsi que le Décalogue : “Tu ne tueras point”…
John 13: I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are my disciples—if you have love among yourselves.
Jesus said the above. This clearly shows the genuine Christian by its actions
jw.org
John 13:34,35