Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 11, 2010

Armistice Day, as Veteran?s Day was originally known, commemorated the end of World War I. That war was the murder-suicide of Christendom.

In August 1914, Europe went to war almost giddy with anticipation. By late Autumn all sides were bogged down in what would prove to be a lengthy and gruesome stalemate along a static front stretching through France and Belgium. That stalemate would be broken when the United States entered the war in April 1917.

Shortly after America?s stupid and pointless intervention in Europe, Pope Benedict XV called for the antagonists to seek ?a peace of mutual forgiveness and forbearance.? Instead, the war ground on for another year and a half, slaughtering hundreds of thousands and unleashing militant strains of nationalism and totalitarianism that continue to torment the world.

Yes, we should remember veterans ? but we should also abhor the distilled evil that is the interventionist foreign policy that creates so many of them.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.