Marianne said:
You must feel so good when you read your bible and when you go to your
Sunday sermons. I'm sure your virtuous religious beliefs comfort you
when you are amongst all the other "undesirables" who walk the face of
this Earth.
You're right. Especially the part about "Smite them unto the third
generation, and the man-servant and the maid-servant and the beasts of the
field..."
Strange you should mention Sunday sermons. Here's a recent one:
"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to
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 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; 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 little children to wander unfriended
the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of
the sun flames of 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 pilgrimage, 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. "
