150 Years Ago, The Battle of Gettysburg Started. Today, Some Americans Want Another Civil War

[riqster]

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/150-years-ago-the-battle-of-gettysburg-started-today-some-americans-are-so-s-stupid-they-want-another-civil-war/

Snip:

"Today we should remember the brave Civil War soldiers who were killed on behalf of ideological extremists who had built their fortunes of the bones of people they had enslaved. Ask yourselves this question: what is the best way to honor their sacrifice? Is it:

Number A: repeating the errors of the past by launching a second civil war and attempting to overthrow a duly constituted government, or

Letter 2: coming together as a nation by rejecting these calls for violence, inequality, hatred, treason and wholesale bloodshed."

More at the link, including "Christian" calls to arms like this one:

"If America is to be put in its place – put right – Christians must risk martyrdom and force Babel to the crux where it has to decide either to acknowledge Jesus an imperator and the church as God’s imperium or to begin drinking holy blood.”

These people are crazy. And dangerous.

[Javaman]

1. generally the people promoting war...

are usually the ones that think they won't die.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. And it helps if they never been in one

God imperator...

The imperium...lord...that is some scary language.

[Javaman]

3. Yup. nt

[riqster]

4. "Drink holy blood"????

DaFuq?

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. It read like a bad take of 40k mythos

Damn, these folks are like for real

[11 Bravo]

6. I'm a Christian and I've got to say, that's some seriously crazy shit!

[riqster]

7. Same here.

We stodgy old Prods tend to wonder just where these loons come up with this crap.

[HardTimes99]

8. If they want a civil war, they can move to Somalia right now. I hear there's

a need for some 'Christian soldiers' there

On a humorous note, one of the funniest signs I ever saw at an anti-war rally (Iraq) was a hand-written one that said simply, "Backward, Christian Soldiers." I almost pissed myself, I was laughing so hard.

[riqster]

9. I'd help buy their tickets.

C'mon everyone, pass the plate!