And one more sample…

of Catholics speaking evil in order to justify mass murder of innocents:

I agree, “some of the blogging being done to commemorate the attack is most unfortunate,” yours is one. I want to address the idea that people talk about civilians as if they were innocent. People at one time talked about innocent women and children, then it was innocent civilians, and now it civilians, innocent is implied. I contend that civilians are not innocent in the war effort. Remember learning about ‘Rosie the riveter,’ women asked to do non-traditional jobs to support the war effort, all Americans asked to do there part in the war efforts, remember learning about those things? I had a teacher that told us about ‘city black outs.’ He, aged 10 or 11, after the sirens went off, jumped on his bike and rode down the streets where he was assigned to make sure everyone had their lights off or their blinds drawn. He reported back to, I an not sure who he said he reported back to, but I think it was the police. Are the civilians that worked to support the war effort really innocent? Lets look at the women who worked in the factories making, say making parts for the ‘bombers’ or making parts for machine guns, or the multitude of other things that are used in support of the war, are they innocent? Well they are not actually fighting in the war, but I don’t believe they are innocent. What about the women say, who were providing day care for children so other women could work in the factories in support of the war effort, are they innocent? I don’t believe so. I don’t believe there are innocent civilians in a time of war. Innocent children, yes. Innocent adult civilians, no. I can here people saying they had no choice, they were forced, the country was at war, they had to. Well that may be so, and they may be less responsible, but not innocent. And this idea applies to both sides in the a war. I know people are not going to like idea, but tell me, how can you support the war effort and be innocent?

The eradication of the distinction between civilian and soldier was the innovation that William Tecumseh Sherman brought to war in the 1860s. The Axis adopted it in the Blitz and we adopted in time. Now you have Catholics–Catholics!–singing its praises.

Of course, the first extrapolation of this sort of thinking is that somebody who perceives themselves as fighting a defensive war against an incursion by an alien power on their native soil (like, say, a bunch of Muslim Saudis who resent US presence in their country) have every right to kill three thousand civilians who worked for giant corporations that were intimately involved in our military and economic dealings with the Saudis. In short, you open the door to saying that 9/11 was a legitimate act of war.

And, of course, despite the protestations of absenting children from the war crimes, the fact is, thousands of children were murdered at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Of course, you could simply say what the exterminators of Native Americans said when *they* adopted the “Who says civilians are innocent?” approach. When they murdered Indian children, they rationalized it by declaring, “Nits make lice.”

May God solemnly damn these justifications for mass murder of innocent civilians, through our Lord Jesus Christ.