The tattoo on this US soldier's back spells kafir, the Arabic word for infidel. He is a member of the 10th Mountain Division, serving in Wardak province, Afghanistan.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness"
The tattoo on this US soldier's back spells kafir, the Arabic word for infidel. He is a member of the 10th Mountain Division, serving in Wardak province, Afghanistan.
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wow.
tgn
He's a moving target.
"Spiritual strength and courage are needed for our spiritual warfare and suffering. Those who would prove themselves to have true grace, must aim at all grace; and put on the whole armour of God, which he prepares and bestows. The Christian armour is made to be worn; and there is no putting off our armour till we have done our warfare, and finished our course. The combat is not against human enemies, nor against our own corrupt nature only; we have to do with an enemy who has a thousand ways of beguiling unstable souls. The devils assault us in the things that belong to our souls, and labour to deface the heavenly image in our hearts. We must resolve by God's grace, not to yield to Satan. Resist him, and he will flee. If we give way, he will get ground. If we distrust either our cause, or our Leader, or our armour, we give him advantage. The different parts of the armour of heavy-armed soldiers, who had to sustain the fiercest assaults of the enemy, are here described. There is none for the back; nothing to defend those who turn back in the Christian warfare. Truth, or sincerity, is the girdle. This girds on all the other pieces of our armour, and is first mentioned. There can be no religion without sincerity. The righteousness of Christ, imputed to us, is a breastplate against the arrows of Divine wrath. The righteousness of Christ implanted in us, fortifies the heart against the attacks of Satan. Resolution must be as greaves, or armour to our legs; and to stand their ground or to march forward in rugged paths, the feet must be shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Motives to obedience, amidst trials, must be drawn from a clear knowledge of the gospel. Faith is all in all in an hour of temptation. Faith, as relying on unseen objects, receiving Christ and the benefits of redemption, and so deriving grace from him, is like a shield, a defence every way. The devil is the wicked one. Violent temptations, by which the soul is set on fire of hell, are darts Satan shoots at us. Also, hard thoughts of God, and as to ourselves. Faith applying the word of God and the grace of Christ, quenches the darts of temptation. Salvation must be our helmet. A good hope of salvation, a Scriptural expectation of victory, will purify the soul, and keep it from being defiled by Satan. To the Christian armed for defense in battle, the apostle recommends only one weapon of attack; but it is enough, the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. It subdues and mortifies evil desires and blasphemous thoughts as they rise within; and answers unbelief and error as they assault from without. A single text, well understood, and rightly applied, at once destroys a temptation or an objection, and subdues the most formidable adversary. Prayer must fasten all the other parts of our Christian armour. There are other duties of religion, and of our stations in the world, but we must keep up times of prayer. Though set and solemn prayer may not be seasonable when other duties are to be done, yet short pious prayers darted out, always are so. We must use holy thoughts in our ordinary course. A vain heart will be vain in prayer. We must pray with all kinds of prayer, public, private, and secret; social and solitary; solemn and sudden: with all the parts of prayer; confession of sin, petition for mercy, and thanksgiving for favours received. And we must do it by the grace of God the Holy Spirit, in dependence on, and according to, his teaching. We must preserve in particular requests, notwithstanding discouragements. We must pray, not for ourselves only, but for all saints. Our enemies are mighty, and we are without strength, but our Redeemer is almighty, and in the power of his mighty we may overcome. Wherefore we must stir up ourselves. Have not we, when God has called, often neglected to answer? Let us think upon these things, and continue our prayers with patience."
good speech, nice preachin'
What up Noutax?
I enjoyed that.
This cracker will be dead by saturday!!
"This cracker will be dead by saturday!!"
ROTFLMMFBAO!!!!!
what up keith?
DV, That's some bullshit that's a real tattoo because the lines don't curve naturally with his back and the color is too dark. The pic looks photoshopped.
Otherwise, hi.
Sista Kit!
What's happenin' lady? Where you been?
Nahhh. Flick is real.
Unless Time Magazine PS'd it.
And it does curve. And tattoo ink is dark. Especially on white boys.
Plus who are we bullshitting? The excursion in Afghanistan is a spiritual war.
Kit, I agree it looks photoshopped.
Time magazine, yeah they would do something like that. when has journalism been so truthful?
Yea I think Kit is rite. I'd never noticed before but it doesn't follow the slight curve of his right shoulder blade.
ya'll hard headed:
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1946595_2010996,00.html
Still say it looks fake, and the guy it's supposedly on doesn't look white. Light, but not white.
Otherwise DV, I've been on blogger lite mode and will be for the next few weeks.
I know some operators with tattoo's in Arabic. Maybe that picture is faked (that was my first thought), but there are plenty of guys with tattoos that (at least they think) says something offensive. This isn't new. Warriors have been taunting their opponents and opposition civilians since the first rock was thrown.
I think THIS insult is particularly ignorant. Some of the architects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to try to use the religious and cultural angle, even going so far as to invoke the "crusades"...but those guys are steeped in all of that biblical Apocalypse bullshit, hoping they can spark the Armageddon. I suppose you have to hype up 19 year olds somehow.
Testosterone is a hell of a drug.
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