Patriotism?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Love is peace’s ultimate weapon.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Words fail me, again.
How can one possibly express what is beyond words?
As you are. As this world is. As life is. As my life is.
Beyond words. Beyond belief if I had not experienced it for myself.
I guess I’m not alone in that awareness.
Word must become flesh. Unfleshed word has no reality; it remains in the realm of dreams, a brooding, unintelligible and unformed chaos.
You could not leave it at that.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Take this job and shove it.”

[He might have been tempted to say it in the Garden of Gethsemane. He didn’t.]

D. Blog: Patriotism

It is a sick sort of patriotism that expects citizens to blindly support the nation going to war. I liken it to jumping off a cliff because some one tells me I should. In that situation, the patriot, it seems to me, will warn against taking such a leap into the abyss, step away from the cliff edge, walk away to live another day.