Lady Liberty and the I Fell Towering Inferno

I suppose it is much easier to share the virtues of peace when machine gun splatter across the front of your house, and mustard gas bombs are a reality from which we are separated by thousands of miles.

And I suppose it's much easier to talk about the forgiveness of our enemies, when we don't have to look our enemy in the eye every day, seeing them face to face, watching them walk our streets and  outside our homes, armed to the teeth, while wondering if it will be our family's turn next chosen for torture, execution and rape.

That much is easy... easy is the only life most of us know.

We are free to speak out as we feel the inclination to do so. 

We reject any faith based worldviews, and deny our Creator, choosing depravity as our entertainment. We celebrate it and pay homage with our wages, while another world away they despise it and us.

We change religions freely, on a whim and have the liberty to mishmash ideologies which only marginal logic would reveal to as not running parallel, all at our leisure.

With the turn of the tide we make decisions which weigh far more heavily in the rest of the world and carry far greater consequence.

We speak freely against the government, freely against the church, and freely against our neighbors, with no fear of any real repercussions. It is not so elsewhere.

We watch safely in HD, from our homes the terror invoked by terrorists, and the greatest course of protest and support we can seem to make is by virtue of technology through social media.

There is a storm coming for us, and I fear we may perhaps be ill-prepared.

Not in terms of weaponry, for the war at hand is not one of flesh and bone.

We are illequipped spiritually, intellectually, for it is war of ideology, of faith. It is waged by a people that do not enjoy the luxury of declining a faith in God, such that our affluence and freedoms easily affords us.

Faith is all they have.

It is what they have live for...
  ... it is what they will gladly die for.

So we watch, and wait, for the enemy to come to us, and the extent of our support for most, is barely more than changing our profile photo to incorporate the flag of a nation, that a faceless corporation has chosen for us.

So we are allowed to feel we have done something when all we have done is actually nothing at all.

God forgive America, and God forgive me, the worst sinner of all.

Solo Cristo Salva

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