In the Russia-Ukraine war, a photo of Mary Magdalene holding a Javelin, an anti-tank missile launcher, in her arms, is being used as a symbol of defiance.
In the picture, Mary Magdalene, styled as in Eastern Orthodox church paintings, is being hailed as St. Javelin and has become the face of Ukraine's resistance to the Russian invasion.
The Javelin is a FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile that is fitted with a high-explosive anti-tank warhead and has a range of 2,000 metres. It was designed by the US defence firms in the late 1980s, and can be fired by soldiers - not requiring a missile launcher. Already it has proven to be effective being responsible for the destruction of a great many Russian planes, helicopters, tanks and armoured carriers.
Ukraine bought the Javelins from the US in 2018 from the United States as part of a military support deal - probably the one that the orange fool Trump tried to hold up. It's lucky for the Ukrainians that the idiot was impeached and the deals went through.I like this story and the use of old Mags as the face of the resistance. I've always preferred her over Robert's favourite - the Virgin Mary. Mags was more real or at least believable and I guess that Jesus thought so too as he was reputed to be having sex with her and some (The Carolingians) reckoned that he got her pregnant. Maybe Robert can enlighten us on that.
Bloody Russians. Go Ukraine!
ReplyDeletePeter could make up any story and ask me to disprove it. As Trent Horn might say "That's called an argument from silence". Probably better just to believe that God created the universe and inspired the Bible. It's up to you. Heaven or Hell?
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