{"id":299,"date":"2012-02-14T00:54:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T05:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2012-02-13T18:10:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T23:10:56","slug":"wars-wholly-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/14\/wars-wholly-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"All Wars are Wholly Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">All Wars are Wholly Wars-ANTI-WAR BUTTON<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/Anti-War\/Buttons\/All-Wars-are-Wholly-Wars-ANTI-WAR-BUTTON.html\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/ProductImages\/peace_anti_war_political_public_health_pictures\/All_Wars_are_Wholly_Wars.gif\" alt=\"All Wars are Wholly Wars-ANTI-WAR BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"174\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/Anti-War\/Buttons\/All-Wars-are-Wholly-Wars-ANTI-WAR-BUTTON.html\">All Wars are Wholly Wars-ANTI-WAR BUTTON<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, magnets, posters, and sticker sheets can be accessed by scrolling down the product page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><strong>View more <a title=\"Anti-War Buttons\" href=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/BUTTONS-Anti-War-Buttons-Pins.html\">Anti-War Buttons<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This anti-war design utilizes a relatively simple pun to convey a relatively simple message.\u00a0 War is war is war.\u00a0 Every time a new war comes along we are told that is a new kind of war, with new more evil and nefarious enemy, etc. etc.\u00a0 This is a lie.\u00a0 The inescapable means of war are death and destruction.\u00a0 The rest is details.\u00a0 Of course, being antiwar is often seen as being unpatriotic.\u00a0 Thus the pun, allusion to &#8220;holy&#8221; wars.\u00a0 War is the ultimate instrument of nationalism.\u00a0 Nationalism is a form of worship.\u00a0 So-called patriots are expected to participate in this worship.\u00a0 Thus, those who oppose war are often considered unpatriotic.\u00a0 The idea of a holy war is so repugnant that I hardly even know where to begin critiquing it.\u00a0 Nominally, religion has been used as the guise for justifying wars for centuries.\u00a0 However, true religion has no place for war.\u00a0 Hopefully, this design helps de-link religion from wars, and puts religion into its proper role, that of opposing war, not just some wars, or an occasional war, but all wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Wars are Wholly Wars-ANTI-WAR BUTTON All Wars are Wholly Wars-ANTI-WAR BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, magnets, posters, and sticker sheets can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/14\/wars-wholly-wars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,15],"tags":[91,385,392,202,72,201,83,529,723,203,383],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-war","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-cool-design","tag-death","tag-evil","tag-holy","tag-nationalism","tag-patriotism","tag-religion","tag-time","tag-top-pun","tag-war","tag-worship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>All Wars are Wholly Wars | Anti-War, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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