Excerpt of the end of the #WarPrayer
“O Lord our God, help us to 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;

Hegseth prays at Pentagon service for ‘overwhelming violence’ against enemies Remarks come after Hegseth calls for changes to military’s chaplain corps, which he said had been ‘watered down’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... feels like it is time to dust off Mark Twain‘s the War Prayer, still one of the most excoriating condemnations of American bloodthirstiness in the name of God #PeteHegseth #ChristianNationalism #WarPrayer

The War Prayer by Mark Twain

Occasionally we hear profoundly unethical, immoral, vicious attitudes to life, society, others, expressed in deceptively gentle, civil, even eloquent sounding language and tones, life toxic waste in a beautifully crafted vessel.
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The War Prayer by Mark Twain

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Jesse Welles reciting the War Prayer from Mark Twain's short story "The War Prayer"

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The War Prayer, by Mark Twain Read by Cleve Hicks

The #WarPrayer, by #MarkTwain
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“A War Prayer” — Mark Twain, read on my 63rd birthday.
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