How about really putting Christ back into Christmas this year.
Dr. ML King stated that, ” A nation that spends more on the military and war than it does on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death” (1967) and, “The choice is not between nonviolence and violence, but between non-violence and non existence” (April 1968).
Both corporate parties accept the framing of the world as a competitive battle between Nation-States and Corporations for bigger pieces of wealth and security to be obtained and maintained with massive military spending and endless war. Thus they justify flowing more than half the national budget to “National Defense.” Does anyone remember that the Germans disastrously bought into this ideology that the chief and most noble activity of the state (Homeland) is war and dominance.
By 1999, 9 years after the “end of the Cold War” the US Space Command could publish a Vision 2020 piece (at taxpayer expense) declaring, “US Space Command–Dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect US national interests and investment. Integrating Space Forces into warfighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict.” After signing treaties supposed to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons we have committed to a $1.5 Trillion for “modernizing our nuclear weapons complex. No vote among citizens was taken about this commitment of the Defense budget to such domination of Global Affairs, or the assumption that per-emptive war is in line with American values. The commitment to an International Rule of Law via a United Nations and Treaty Law has been labelled “snowflake”. Jesus of Nazareth and his message of Love has been sold out to the purveyors of so-called “Christian” nationalism.
It seems appropriate to spend time at the Advent of the “Holiday Season” when Christians celebrate the coming of the “Prince of Peace” and the Spirit of the Season is supposed to be of Giving rather than Getting, that we examine how deeply our commitment to violence, war fighting and dominance has penetrated our thinking, our spending, our priorities as a nation, state and city, and our acceptance of a permanent state of warfare–economic and military in nature at the expense of the planet and other people’s aspirations.
