Memory this......

Memorial Day means very little to Americans, outside of it being a three day holiday...and the unofficail beginning of Summer.

The current idea that we should "honor" soldiers by moving/taking them "out of harm's way" in Iraq and Afghanistan should be ludicrous to people because it is illogical and completely makes for bad foreign policy.....yet, this mindset remains intact within both political parties and could most likely impact the national elections in November.

The truth is that some people in America cannot believe that a principle is valuable enough to die for.

What principle? Freedom. After all, that's what Memorial Day does - it "brings to memory" those members of the armed services who died for our freedom.

And we simply lather on the sun tan lotion and pass around the Bud Light....

C'mon, who wants to die for someone else?

If this life is all there is, the logic could make sense...who'd really want to give up all that there is to go to nothingness. Selfishness would start to seem logical under these conditions...

So, I suppose that the true examination of selfishness should REALLY be the question: "Isn't there something else for ME!!!"

And if there REALLY WAS something else...then wouldn't we want to remember them...and where they went?

Hmmm.....maybe the whole thing begins to draw us to truth, after all.
Den

Comments

[Believer]

I would absolutely lay down my life for another person. Just not a principle or belief. I had strong belief and pride in this nation which is why I joined the military. But what I thought was the principles of freedom of this country and what I have learned since are two totally different things. Would I go back and do it again knowing what I know now? I don't know. God obviously had something He wanted me to gain from the experience so I can't possibly outthink God. And I don't want to. But, knowing what I know now has made me examine what made this country great. The cournerstone of this nation was God. And we prospered and had God's favor. We have ripped out the cornerstone and chosen the wrong the path to the point that we no longer have the principles that this country was founded on. And God has been watching. What did God do to Israel when she ripped up her cornerstone? That's all I'm saying.

[Dennis Mansfield]

The truth is probalby out there that balances dying for someone else...and dying for that person within a righteous cause.

Maybe not. Maybe the full truth is dying for someone else only within the framework of Christian beliefs. Otherwise we'd all have to accept the crazed Islamofascits who copmmit suicide and take others with them.

The full truth seems to be that this world is NOT all there is, and that as we leave the threshold of this world, entering into the next, we take with us the intentions of our hearts...and the Lord God Almighty reads those intentions.

No greater love exist than to lay our lives down for another...Jesus said that, not me.
Den

[Believer]

I joined the Navy because I believed in the "freedoms" that this country purports to the rest of the world. But this past year has ripped the brain-washing from me. This country is not free. You are kidding yourself if you believe it. I now often wonder what I became a disabled vet for. The only principle, belief worth risking my life for is the belief in God, and Jesus. And if you think this country has freedom of religion, think again. I was ordered by a judge not to attend my church. Where is the religous freedom in that?

[Trish]

"The truth is that some people in America cannot believe that a principle is valuable enough to die for."

"C'mon, who wants to die for someone else?"

Romans 12
1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship. 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

I don't know why, but this passage feels appropriate.