To Fight Phantom Enemies
We spend and/or budget about 750 BILLION dollars on defense- people who make weapons and function in war. By contrast whenever a vote to fund the UN or the US Institute of Peace comes up
they are lucky to get any funding at all. In fact Congress once voted to give the USIP ZERO.
The defense industries' lobbys are wildly powerful.
We are not in a 'cold war.' We should barely be in a 'war on drugs'. We are not on a Crusade fighting Muslims.
We make our own terrorists to justify this completely insane misplaced national prioritization. We provoke our own wars. We stage our own victimization. We act bizarrely indignant to anyone who disagrees calling them unpatriotic or immoral.
This is a far far greater evil, a crime, than anything to do with insurance mandates.
Yet the Bishops aren't holding any rallies on overmilitarization of society in a culture of death.
No bishop is out there on Youtube or Fox decrying the fact that we have maimed or killed or seriously wounded about 50,000 of our American soldiers and millions of innocent Iraqis. Totally innocent people.
No Bishop is saying "Learn War No More" and lay down your swords for plowing shares-lets learn Peace.
Not One.
No Bishop will have a child of their own or support a wife who does. No Bishop has first hand knowledge that many fertilized eggs that leave a woman's tubes don't get implanted naturally in her uterus wall lining and are sluffed off- so while 'conception' might start life, there is another act of fortuity that allows it to become a growing embryo-namely if it by chance makes it to the lining and hangs on there. Many many factors can determine this, notably the health of the lining, the stress of the woman which can affect hormones, other hormonal features. What contraception does is give the woman control and conscious choice over when she wants it to happen or not. God gave her that control because God allowed the technology to develop to allow her this freedom of choice. Not that all
technology that exists is intrinsically good but this one has served a useful societal utility in the mental health and well being of women. Contraception, whether physical (diaphragms and condoms) or chemical (more risky to health) is not as great a threat to civilization as a 750 Billion Dollar US Defense
Budget for blasting limbless our imagined enemies in the interest of oil company interests. The Bishops have been corrupted because they are fed by the Defense Contractors and those feeding off the 750 Billion. We don't have a Department of Peace with a Budget for contractors. We have a Pentagon and Department of Defense that pays obscenely people who fund particularly the Archdiocese of Washington, DC.
Get with the Program- the one Jesus was about.
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