Whole Reason

Today is the 63rd anniver­sary of the tak­ing of Omaha Beach, the day in which allied forces took back Europe from Hitler.   Today’s Focus on the Fam­ily had a nice remem­brance by play­ing the prayer of Roo­sevelt, and the 40th anniver­sary speeches of Pres­i­dent Reagan. 

To me, the ide­o­log­i­cal sig­nif­i­cance of Roosevelt’s speech, and the bat­tle of D-Day are crit­i­cal things to observe, in light of the threats of our own day. 

1.  The pres­i­dent prayed pub­licly. 

This flies in the face of the fun­da­men­tal­ist sec­u­lar­ist idea that sep­a­ra­tion of church and state pro­hibits such actions by the pres­i­dent.  We are a reli­gious peo­ple, with a coun­try founded on Judeo-Christian prin­ci­ples.  I think that, despite the healthy lim­its that our laws put on the merg­ing of faith and gov­ern­ment, there is room for lim­ited spe­cial plead­ing on behalf of the Judeo-Christian god, both due to the his­tory of this coun­try and the plain truth of the scrip­tures.  Pres­i­dents can and should pray to Almighty God, even pub­licly (notice that Roo­sevelt did not men­tion Jesus, just almighty God).

2.  Paci­fism is not only imprac­ti­cal, but unChristian

I must main­tain the stance that, while paci­fism and non-violent resis­tance have their place in our arse­nal against unright­eous­ness, there is, as the bible says, “a time for war.”  When you face malig­nant, imme­di­ate lethal threats on a soci­etal level, paci­fism is fool­ish.  As Rea­gan so rightly said:

there is a pro­found moral dif­fer­ence between the use of force for lib­er­a­tion and the use of force for conquest

I again must highly rec­om­mend the eight part series Jesus, Paci­fism, and the Sword, which gives a very com­plete bib­li­cal the­ol­ogy regard­ing paci­fism and turn­ing the other cheek, etc.

3.  Islam is the Nazism of our Day, and we need to treat it such

Just like there were many Ger­mans who went along with Nazism unknow­ingly, there are mil­lions of well-meaning and nice Mus­lims who are part of the malig­nant ide­ol­ogy of Islam, which has been vio­lent and anti-semitic from it’s incep­tion and through­out his­tory.  Because Islam is bent on world con­quest and sub­ju­ga­tion, as Nazism was, even­tu­ally, we will need to take up force of arms, as has hap­pened dur­ing the pre­vi­ous two his­toric waves of Islamic expan­sion, to lib­er­ate our­selves and oth­ers.   Might as well pre­pare our minds for that eventuality. 

The les­son of WWII and D-Day is that if you ignore a can­cer long enough, hop­ing it will go away, it even­tu­ally will grow right up to your doorstep.  We should work hard to resist this evil ide­ol­ogy now so that we can, if pos­si­ble, pre­vent an armed con­flict like D-day, which took so many lives.