Thoughts On War: John Wesley
This was the title of a short sermon given by the great co. founder
of Methodism: John Wesley; and to this modern generation - increasingly
no longer orientated towards reading books! - a simple solution is to
switch on a computer and ‘simply’ look up YouTube [To view some of my
own past TV appearances – for which I’m grateful to Phil – a true saint
behind the scenes! - just type in to Google: animal padre james
thompson]. There you’ll find under ‘John Wesley & War’ a gifted young
actor representing Wesley and using, at least, part of one of the
eighteen-century Revivalist’s sermons on that very theme.
The fact is that John Wesley could not conceive of anything worse
than one Christian going in to war to kill a fellow brother in Christ.
Yes, the very thought of it was too inconceivable to comprehend and
Wesley - who later evolved to become a vegetarian of that time – when so
few were about! – quite probably saw the real connection between
erecting and using slaughter houses for innocent animals and that of
building and using weapons of war against humans conditioned or coerced
to think different to ones self. Indeed, the cause of war was frequently
no more than one member of a royal circle greedily wanting a little more
land than another;: as was the cause of the so-called Great War, better
termed Notorious!
‘I stand to be corrected, but I think it was Leo Tolstoy who affirmed
that ‘while ever there are slaughter houses there will be
battle-fields’? Still, how very true! Yet, quite amazingly even
the most educated of this world are so often unable to see the clear
connection. Little wonder that Jesus could rejoice and say to His
Father: “I thank Thee Lord for hiding such things from the wise of this
world and for revealing such truths to mere babes.” (Luke 10:21)
The apostle Paul – a past intellectual of standing – affirmed that “‘Not
many rich or learned of this world are chosen” and also that “the
so-called wisdom of this world is, indeed, foolishness to God!”
The incomprehensiveness of the most academic of this world to see the
connection of the above is due to the difference between simple God
given wisdom and worldly interpretations of’ academia. Amazingly these
facets frequently far from go together! One glaring example is the fruit
of our secular education making its effects known only too clearly in
recent months. Such thuggery and violence is the rotten fruit of having
over indulged secular knowledge in to young rascals while they have
received hardly a minimum of moral and spiritual teaching.
Doreen and I - picture snapped earlier this year!
Yes, the shortsightedness of a past Blairite regime – so strongly
opposed by Doreen and myself! - resulted in giving the tools to little
rascals so as to turn them in to gigantic ones..
Indeed, secularist politicians - of which the past government was
riddled through with those proud to be atheists – have had their
short-sighted priorities come home to roost Consequently, the present
coalition has, well and truly, been encumbered with something it never
wanted.
Indeed, Conservatism, on the contrary, has frequently been supportive
of state Christianity; and for this reason the Church Of England had
been humorously referred to in pre. Blaitite times as the Conservative
party at prayer! Little wonder then that our prime minister, Mr Cameron,
sees the real need to instil Christian values within state schools.
However - like his ilk of past centuries! - he has been nurtured, or
rather ‘brainwashed’ in to seeing no harm at all in going out to maim
and kill defenceless animals in the name of sport! Yes and consequently,
it became but a step away from going out and callously condoning the
slaughter of humans whose opinions happened to clash with ones own.
In Wesley’s day, kings who fell out with each other, sent their male
subjects to go out and slaughter that king’s enemy. The poor subjects
had no say in the matter! However, today one is supposed to live in more
democratic lines, yet when that tyrant Blair – a veritable buffoon for
that bigger buffoon Bush – decided to start a war, the gutless masses of
M.P.s sat back and allowed it all to occur. Yes, and its quite amazing
that such past tyrants - once they’ve lost their power - should spend
the rest of their days in a style reflective of the last Emperor of
Japan or an earlier Kaiser of Germany. Undoubtedly - In a very true
sense - the Devil, being the ruler of this world, very much looks after
his own! However, after this life comes the judgment when men will
be begin to ‘most justly’ reap in eternity what they have sown here and
now.
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