Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910) on Religious Powers and War(published by RevoltSource) |
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American Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer, Lauded as the "greatest Humorist the United States has Produced", and William Faulkner Called him "the Father of American Literature"
: An American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #8 on Religious Struggle Quotes >> Religious Powers and War
“...when the Lord God of Heaven and Earth, adored Father of Man, goes to war, there is no limit. He is totally without mercy -- he, who is called the Fountain of Mercy. He slays, slays, slays! All the men, all the beasts, all the boys, all the babies, also all the women and all the girls, except those that have not been deflowered.
He makes no distinction between innocent and guilty. The babies were innocent, the beasts were innocent, many of the men, many of the women, many of the boys, many of the girls were innocent, yet they had to suffer with the guilty. What the insane Father required was blood and misery; he was indifferent as to who furnished it.
The heaviest punishment of all was meted out to persons who could not by any possibility have deserved so horrible a fate -- the 32,000 virgins. Their naked privacies were probed, to make sure that they still possessed the hymen unruptured; after this humiliation they were sent away from the land that had been their home, to be sold into slavery; the worst of slaveries and the shamefulest, the slavery of prostitution; bed-slavery, to excite lust, and satisfy it with their bodies; slavery to any buyer, be he gentleman or be he a course and filthy ruffian.”
Source: "Letters from the Earth," by Mark Twain. Published by Harper Perennial, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Published posthumously in 1962. Letter 11, pages 51-52.
"Letters from the Earth," by Mark Twain. Published by Harper Perennial, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Published posthumously in 1962.
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