Comments on: What Might Have Been http://www.fearlesspath.net/2009/09/16/what-might-have-been/ "True morality consists not in following the beaten track but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it.": Mohandas K. Gandhi Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:49:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Aharon Smith http://www.fearlesspath.net/2009/09/16/what-might-have-been/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Aharon Smith Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:02:31 +0000 http://www.fearlesspath.net/?p=216#comment-188 Agreed. What a cool way of looking at how things could have been. What an ideal that we can strive for in the future. Maybe this war on terror, this realization that for the lust for revenge we have plunged ourselves into never-ending wars with potential blowbacks will awaken the rising generation in this nation to build a better foreign policy path for tomorrow. God bless America and may America remember God. Agreed. What a cool way of looking at how things could have been. What an ideal that we can strive for in the future. Maybe this war on terror, this realization that for the lust for revenge we have plunged ourselves into never-ending wars with potential blowbacks will awaken the rising generation in this nation to build a better foreign policy path for tomorrow. God bless America and may America remember God.

]]> By: mike http://www.fearlesspath.net/2009/09/16/what-might-have-been/comment-page-1/#comment-183 mike Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:48:23 +0000 http://www.fearlesspath.net/?p=216#comment-183 "He was resolved to build a strong state, and thought that it could not be done by Christian means. His use of the traditional tools of statecraft-propaganda, deception, intrigue, discipline, war-was bound to offend those who preferred a Christian [nation] to a strong one". No, not GWB or even Dick Cheney. Rodrigo Borgia aka Pope Alexander VI. Will Durant here is referring to the Catholic church, then and now a Christian church. The question is, unless a nation is going to behave like a Christian nation, should it continue to say that it is? Or should we stop deceiving ourselves and recognize that a nation can never have a higher allegiance than itself? Rulers will use any means to attain their ends. For most, religion and war are both means only, with the ends being power and money. But most citizens, when a leader says "religion" or "war", stop thinking for themselves and fall right in line with what is being asked of them... “He was resolved to build a strong state, and thought that it could not be done by Christian means. His use of the traditional tools of statecraft-propaganda, deception, intrigue, discipline, war-was bound to offend those who preferred a Christian [nation] to a strong one”.

No, not GWB or even Dick Cheney. Rodrigo Borgia aka Pope Alexander VI. Will Durant here is referring to the Catholic church, then and now a Christian church. The question is, unless a nation is going to behave like a Christian nation, should it continue to say that it is? Or should we stop deceiving ourselves and recognize that a nation can never have a higher allegiance than itself? Rulers will use any means to attain their ends. For most, religion and war are both means only, with the ends being power and money.

But most citizens, when a leader says “religion” or “war”, stop thinking for themselves and fall right in line with what is being asked of them…

]]> By: Janet Erickson http://www.fearlesspath.net/2009/09/16/what-might-have-been/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Janet Erickson Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:37:44 +0000 http://www.fearlesspath.net/?p=216#comment-164 What a huge blessing that would have been. Thanks. What a huge blessing that would have been. Thanks.

]]> By: mike http://www.fearlesspath.net/2009/09/16/what-might-have-been/comment-page-1/#comment-163 mike Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:34:21 +0000 http://www.fearlesspath.net/?p=216#comment-163 Wow, Dave. Thanks. Wow, Dave. Thanks.

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