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Mon 9 Jan, 2006 09:06 pm
-- Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1905
Full text of The War Prayer
Ole Sam was a man for all time and all seasons.
No doubt about that, EB--well said . . .
Jeez, nothing's exactly changed, has it?
How depressing.
It'd be rather nice if we'd evolved a bit, hey?
Yes, My Dear Ukrainian Witch, it would be nice to contemplate--however, in our polity, the righteous would outlaw evolution if they were able. But things certainly seem not to have changed very much in the century since Twain wrote that.
I fear that your words are absolutely correct, My Dear Doggy Person!
I do love that Mark Twain.
Let us not forget Luther's prayer for the Jews:
And let those whosoever can, throw brimstone and pitch upon them; if one could hurl hell-fire at them, so much the better....And this must be done for the honor of Our Lord and of Christianity, so that God may see that we are indeed Christians. Let their houses also be shattered and destroyed...Let their prayer books and Talmuds be taken from them, and their whole Bible too; let their rabbis be forbidden, on pain of death, to teach henceforth any more. Let the streets and highways be closed against them. Let them be forbidden to practice usury, and let all their money, and all their treasures of silver and gold be taken from them and put away in safety. And if all this not be enough, let them be driven like mad dogs out of the land.
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