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Where, exactly, in the U.S. Constitution does it say we are somehow bound to love our enemy?
Now, I'm not saying that following Christ's exhortation to love our enemy as we love ourselves would be a bad thing. It would however be a stupid thing in these treacherous times. Love the leaders of Iran, Argentina and North Korea who, daily, tell us they intend to do us in?
But that's what our loony Left would have us do, isn't it? Forgive those who send their unwanted to our country illegally. Forgive the knife-wielding, throat-slitting, head-cutting folks from other lands. Forgive international organizations who rob us blind. Of course they don't come right out and say "forgive." No, Marxists use rhetoric as their cloaking device, so our Lefties call for us to "Stop killing innocent women and children." But they don't ask our enemies to stop killing us. Or they ask us to welcome tens of millions more "hard-working" illegal invaders to our streets because somebody has to pick the lettuce for our tables. Again with the lettuce. No wonder I hate lettuce. By characterizing our enemies in these soft folksy terms, the Left is, in no uncertain terms, encouraging our enemies. What would you call encouraging our enemies to do us harm? Insane? No question. Traitorous? You bet.
Now, the last time I checked, the Left was still quite virulently anti-Christian. Like in don't you Christians dare put any of your symbols out in public where we can see them because they make us feel... well, I don't know what a symbol of Christ makes somebody like Howard Dean or the ACLU gang feel. Guilty? Inferior? Superior? Squirmy? What? But if the Left is so anti-Christ, why exactly are they so hot to borrow Jesus's exhortations to forgive? Is there something just a little hypocritical about anti-Christian Marxists espousing the teachings of the very man they seek to destroy?
You would think that our current-day Leftist Marxist Progressives would espouse the more robust philosophy of someone in their own tent. Someone like Stalin or Mao, whose way of forgiving their enemies was to slaughter them by the millions.
Frankly, if the Left would adopt Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and Mao's techniques, and use them against America's avowed enemies, a lot of us might actually think about crossing over to vote for them. After all, our Republican friends in Congress and other leadership roles have proven they have no stomach for finishing off our enemies. In fact they seem to have no stomach for anything the rest of us want: a quick and definitive end to the current war. A quick and definitive solution to our border problems. A quick and definitive solution to the many other problems of our time.
If they had anything, Lenin, Stalin et al. had quick and definitive solutions to the problems of their time. None of the solutions involved forgiving their enemies, or turning the other cheek.
Even clergymen would do better to tend their flock and stop imploring the rest of us to forgive our nation's enemies. The last thing we need now are the holier-than-thou offering our enemies aid and comfort. Jesus was far more realistic than our contemporary clergy. Would Christ exhort us to forgive those who are trying to eradicate him and his followers? Would he have us turn the other cheek when we are mercilessly attacked? Not on your life. The only turning he would advise is turning our enemies to dust.
It's a terrible, terrible thing to suggest turning your enemies to dust. But the world will be a far safer place without these hard-core killers. Only when they are gone should we consider forgiveness. Forgiveness for their supporters; our Leftist politicians, academicians and journalists.
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