From the stupid & offensive files

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From my email, comes a gem of ugly... - We all know that on the Internet, some people like to get their stupid on. However, this particular person takes the prize de Moron. - This joker, who hides behind a screen name, dumps dirt on people who are heroic enough to earn this country's highest honor. "Bryan Fischer" states that the Medal of Honor should be restricted to those who "kill people and break things". - I do not believe in America's military policies most of the time. Still, this is enough to make me see green. - Not content to paint the military with a tar brush, "Bryan Fischer" took a pot shot at Jesus Christ. He suggested that Christ's giving of his life would have been without meaning had he 'not inflicted a mortal wound on the enemy while giving up his own life.' That, I have been reliably informed, is pure natural high octane fertilizer. What Jesus did on his last days and hours was not motivated by pot shots at the Roman Empire. - [i]We have feminized the Medal of Honor. - According to Bill McGurn of the Wall Street Journal, every Medal of Honor awarded during these two conflicts has been awarded for saving life. Not one has been awarded for inflicting casualties on the enemy. Not one. - Gen. George Patton once famously said, "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his." - When we think of heroism in battle, we used the think of our boys storming the beaches of Normandy under withering fire, climbing the cliffs of Pointe do Hoc while enemy soldiers fired straight down on them, and tossing grenades into pill boxes to take out gun emplacements. - That kind of heroism has apparently become passe when it comes to awarding the Medal of Honor. We now award it only for preventing casualties, not for inflicting them. - So the question is this: when are we going to start awarding the Medal of Honor once again for soldiers who kill people and break things so our families can sleep safely at night? - I would suggest our culture has become so feminized that we have become squeamish at the thought of the valor that is expressed in killing enemy soldiers through acts of bravery. We know instinctively that we should honor courage, but shy away from honoring courage if it results in the taking of life rather than in just the saving of life. So we find it safe to honor those who throw themselves on a grenade to save their buddies. - Jesus, in words often cited in ceremonies such as the one which will take place this afternoon, said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). So it is entirely right that we honor this kind of bravery and self-sacrifice, which is surely an imitation of the Lord of Lord and King of Kings. - However, Jesus’ act of self-sacrifice would ultimately have been meaningless - yes, meaningless - if he had not inflicted a mortal wound on the enemy while giving up his own life. - [/i]