One of the best arguments to prove that WW2 was not a just or good war, is that you can trace the rapid moral decline of the West to that war, and probably even the previous one. But especially World War 2. From the moment those veterans came home they produced the most decadent generation in history, and the West was given over to the fruit of its evil actions. God didn't bless the West's actions in WW2, he judged them.
Even many of the men who dropped those bombs on civilians
cities as a terror tactic knew they were murderers, not heroes. Many drunk
themselves into an early grave. The mass social issues in the West after the
war were all the proof we need to show that many of the men who came back were
broken by their evil actions. Many men were heroes on the battlefield, every
war has and produces genuine heroes, but many others knew that they were
ordered to do evil and that they did do it. Many western governments even
passed laws after the war to outlaw such things, because the evil was
recognized, though not repented of.
The WW2 generation returned from the battlefields and
promptly created the "me" generation, the boomers, who perfected
consumerism. The boomers then created the nihilistic Generation x who saw no
hope in consumerism and the anxiety driven Millennial generation, who saw no
comfort in possessions (and can’t really afford much anyway). After this Gen x
and Millennials created the "we are confused about our identity"
generation, that Gen Z which is avoiding dating and marriage at record rates.
History will mark the two world wars, and especially the
second, as the beginning of the reign of darkness in the West, where evil began
to rise in force. And they'll note how much we lied to ourselves about our
righteousness in those wars, because the reality was too hard for consumeristic
materialists to confront honestly. It is easy to see the enemy's evil, it is
much harder to see your own.
I believe that evil will be overcome, eventually, but the
West that exists now must go through a time of trial and testing first to be
restored to a good place and become again what the West should be, Christendom,
or at least a refined and probably smaller version of it. A culture that has
bombed its way to dominance but lies to itself about being the culture of
freedom, lives on a bed of lies that is incredibly unstable. They must be
exposed by harsh realities first.
You will often here people say that the generation who
fought the war would be horrified by the world that their victory created, if
they could see society today. This might be true in some ways. But I think many
today who look back on the war fondly would be equally horrified if they looked
at it through a critical rather than a propaganda lens. We still live in the
wake of the successful WW2 propaganda campaign, but I think more and more
people are starting to notice the reality of what happened. What really
happened is the West turned down a road of severe darkness. It is our job to
shine the light on that, so it can turn back the right way.
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