MARK TWAIN'S WAR PRAYER

Why won't you let me respond to the accusations about me you wrote in that article? You know, the one where you quoted me without asking my permission or informing me of your actions. Come on, be a man, allow an honest exchange of ideas.

This is only a short excerpt from the whole story called the "War Prayer".. needs to be heard in it's entirety to be fully understood and appreciated.

this is more a prayer to satan than it is to God, I am a Soldier and i pray God accepts me for who i am and why i do what i do for my country and for this world i wish not to kill, i wish not their families to be homless their children to starve and wonder the waste, and im damn sure God doesnt want that either!

Out of context, your statement makes sense. If you read the actual story that Mark Teain wrote, you'll see that it was worded the way it was to try to get the people around the preist to see that there are horrible consequences to war and that it isn't a grat and glorious occasion.

we were given 2 pcs of paper entitled "war's prayer" for our project, when i read it a few times and at first thought "this is a prayer?" then when i 'really' read it, i thought...just like
xdarkinsidex "the horrible consequences to war"

It's a matter of biology. We have a strong animal impulse to fight, for resources or influence.

If anyone really wishes to end wars as a phenomenon of collective human behavior, we must become something other than animals.

Perhaps man. Whether that is physically possible is debatable.

Jcolinsol- Given Twain's huge intellect maybe I'm just being naieve, but I think the more we can get in touch with our spiritual nature the less war there would be & I guess the point of the war prayer is to show how religion confuses and gets in the way of that. Even though Twain had numerous psychic experiences that it seems to me would have led him to conclude differently,he didn't seem have much faith in man's spiritual abilities to change the world.
Thanks for commenting.
love,
John

Spiritual if you wish. It seems to be more of a genetic thing, aggressive or passive personality characteristics passed on through procreation.

Some spiritual revelation might effect someone to be non-violent. There tends to be a backsliding effect with spiritual revelation though.

More likely such a change will occur through natural selection as a result of civilization. Or perhaps genetic engineering.

Here, Twain was pointing out the hypocrisy of church sanctioned murder throughout history.

I loved your reading so much I'm trying to figure out how to delete mine and make yours show up on my channel.

Spirit- OMG, thank you, you've humbled me, but please don't remove yours. In making your own recording you've done a great thing. Let it stand. Every voice counts.
love,
John