The First Commandment says “I am the Lord Thy God, thou shalt have no other Gods before me.” (Specifically: I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.)
That pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? “You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them… visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation…” Indeed, it was our fathers who chose this path to endless war and we, their children, are now suffering.
We, the citizens of the Unite States, the nation which considers itself a Judaeo-Christian nation, do not follow this commandment. We worship another God – the Pentagon. Jesus said “Where your treasure is there shall your heart be also,” (Matthew 6:21) Our ‘treasure’ is our annual Federal tax revenue. One half goes to war. We collect enough money in tax revenue to pay for all the things we need, but we don’t spend it on what we actually need. We waste it on the Pentagon. And we wonder why we are poor, why we have no money for healthcare, schools, roads and infrastructure, scientific research, alternative energy technologies, and many other socially beneficial things.
What I propose is this: that we spend no more on the military than our next nearest rival which is China. They spent 114 billion dollars in 2010. We should spend no more than that. Such a drastic reduction in our military spending would free up vast amounts of money for other things.
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