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cW  ·  3934 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Drones for Jesus

I attended a school for my undergraduate study that was often compared to Liberty, (at the time, at least), and the mentality toward US politics, patriotism, and the military was very much the same there. While the embracing of drones seems to add an extra layer of absurdity, the central problem is still the same: willingness to blindly embrace as just (or even divinely ordained) and participate in the violent acts of the state (even while decrying other decrees of the same state, generally those which affect matters of personal liberties of citizens, as immoral), while ignoring every message from Jesus and the apostles which proscribes violence and cautions against trusting in the rightness of the powers that be. This seems generally to result from an extension of the delusions of manifest destiny, and the long-sustained myth that the United States should enjoy special privileges because of divine favor.