“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. ”
-Thomas Jefferson

Obviously, that was a little bit of my sarcasm, but isn’t it tiring how every single non-Christian holiday turns to military-worship? There is even some military-worship creep in the Christian holidays, like Easter and Christmas. We have (in order):

1. Memorial Day in May, a day to memorialize dead soldiers (and to cheer on our current wars);
2. July 4th, a day originally meant to commemorate the signing of the document of secession from Great Britain, now designed to spew disgusting sayings like, “Remember those soldiers who died so you could be free” (and to cheer on our current wars);
3. Labor Day (in September), a holiday with Communist origins that we somehow link to remembering soldiers who died for our freedom (and to cheer on our current wars); and
4. Veterans Day (in November)…insert everything I just said for Nos. 1-3 above.

Starting in May, there is a day every other month until November to make sure we’re all still on board with the military and killing. We even interject a little military-worship into Thanksgiving (don’t forget to thank those soldiers who are killing, maiming and being killed in places like Afghanistan and Iraq so you can be free).

The absolute worst is when you go to church on the weekend closest to these days; the church is draped in flags, and we sing disgusting songs of murder, like “Glory, Glory, Halleluiah.” We pray for our soldiers to kill foreign civilians before they kill us because we’re free. Mark Twain’s War Prayer is priceless for getting this point across.

It’s gotten to the point where I dread even going to church on those weekends (like the weekend coming up).