Father George Zabelka: "With confidence in our armed forces
we will gain the inevitable triumph
so help us God.
We pray thee that the end of the war may come soon,
that once more we may know peace on Earth,
may the men who fly this night be kept safe in thy care
and may they be returned safely to us. "

In the name of god we kill

G.Z: "We shall go forward trusting in thee
knowing that we are in the thy care now and forever
in the name of Jesus Christ amen"
In the name of god we kill

VO from an SABC propaganda documentary:
Hierdie woorde form die aanhef van die grondwet van die republiek van Suid Afrika.
Dit spreek van demokrasie en ons plug aan ons god en vaderland
derselfde tyd beantwoord dit die vraag wat aan die oomblik so dikwels gevra word
“ waarom is die Suid Afrikaanse magte in Suid Wes Afrika?”.
In the name of god we kill
In the name of god we die
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Father George Zabelka, a Catholic chaplain with the U.S. Air Force, served as a priest for the airmen who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and gave them his blessing. Days later he counseled an airman who had flown a low-level reconnaissance flight over the city of Nagasaki shortly after the detonation of “Fat Man.” The man described how thousands of scorched, twisted bodies writhed on the ground in the final throes of death, while those still on their feet wandered aimlessly in shock—flesh seared, melted, and falling off. The crewman’s description raised a stifled cry from the depths of Zabelka’s soul: “My God, what have we done?” Over the next twenty years, he gradually came to believe that he had been terribly wrong, that he had denied the very foundations of his faith by lending moral and religious support to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Zabelka died in 1992, but his message, in this speech given on the 40th anniversary of the bombings, must never be forgotten.

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/blessing-the-bombs