One world
Interesting piece this morning in the NY Times on God as every good President’s prime war ally. It concludes with a section from Mark Twain’s War Prayer:
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with pale forms of their patriot dead … help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; … help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolate land … We ask it in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love.
If we’re inclined to work/hope for any grace, perhaps it is for a global transcendence of the religion of dualism inspiring a world divided by violent divinities.
