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Buckeye_Democrat

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12. Reminds me of Mark Twain's "War Prayer", like a modern...
Wed Jun 9, 2021, 10:13 PM
Jun 2021

... variant of it.

https://warprayer.org/

“Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle—be Thou near them! With them—in spirit—we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it—
For our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimmage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet!
We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen."

I hear you Skittles Jun 2021 #1
I've seen that bumpersticker!! Imallin4Joe Jun 2021 #3
If the love Jesus, why don't they follow any of his teachings? nt SunSeeker Jun 2021 #7
Secular humanist here... SergeStorms Jun 2021 #2
The fundies I knew in the 60s were a little different. raging moderate Jun 2021 #4
The ones I knew Jilly_in_VA Jun 2021 #5
That was before the fundies became wnylib Jun 2021 #10
Yes. That was what my fundie church people said. raging moderate Jun 2021 #11
In the 80s, fundies were obsessed with end-times theology. This is Politicub Jun 2021 #16
Amen StarryNite Jun 2021 #6
So be it. Please! nt pazzyanne Jun 2021 #8
I'm no atheist but I can tell you that type of prayer taps into a higher power and it works bucolic_frolic Jun 2021 #9
I want to believe in something the same way that you believe.. Imallin4Joe Jun 2021 #17
No comprehensive study of divergent religions in civilizations is complete bucolic_frolic Jun 2021 #18
Reminds me of Mark Twain's "War Prayer", like a modern... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2021 #12
Well stated. Amen, and thank you. LastDemocratInSC Jun 2021 #13
Thank you as well. Imallin4Joe Jun 2021 #15
Amen. ... electric_blue68 Jun 2021 #14
Amen demigoddess Jun 2021 #19
AMEN! 634-5789 Jun 2021 #20
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