MARK TWAIN'S PRAYER FOR SAD PATRIOTIC WARS

Real name, Samuel Clemens, wrote "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, but your government [politicians] only when they deserve it."

This is what raw war looks like through the astute educated eyes of world-beloved Mark Twain:

"Lord Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forward into battle–be Thou with  them–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 forms of their patriot dead; help us drown the thunder of guns with the shrieking of the wounded writhing in pain; help us lay waste to their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolate land in rags and hunger and thirst–broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring them for the refuge of the grave–for our sakes; blast their hopes and blight their lives–water their way with their tears.

We ask it in the spirit of love of Him who is the source of Love–the ever faithful refuge. Amen"


This prayer of Mark Twain born a hundred years before me reminds me of
Syria today with tragic bedraggled kids bleeding from shrapnel and not understanding why, as other little children are washed up, floating in silence, forlorn on ocean beaches.

War is never the last resort–never the way to solve problems that only aggravate more problems in the aftermaths of foreign proxy civil wars. The problem of ISIS is deep-seated. Three rival related mindsets worship different gods–Jehovah, Jesus and Mohammed–all good deities.  However, radical fanatics among the three branches of the same Abrahamic religion have tried to kill one another off for centuries ever since the Crusades and Vatican killing-torturing-Inquisition against non-believers euphemised as "Spanish."  Now it's up to reasonable members of these wayward extremists to tame and control them–their own people who have gone astray.

 Michael Franti has a band named "Spears."  He wrote, "You can bomb the whole world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace."  This wise compassionate musician stays barefoot to symbolize world's war-torn children having no shoes. He is one of the heroes in my book/essay Entire Songbird Angels For International Peace, musicians' lyrics against futile wars.   helenesmith1.blog spot.com
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