U.S. Military Academy Chaplain Prays for U.S. Troops to Kill and Maim and Make Widows and Orphans
December 15, 2015
The chaplain at the U.S. Military Academy “gave a powerful invocation at Saturday’s Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia.” Actually, he prayed for U.S. troops to kill and maim and make widows and orphans around the world. Here is an excerpt:
We are especially mindful of our first class cadets and midshipmen, bristling on the brink of becoming soldiers, sailors, marines. Ready today to happily visit violence on each other and, if need be, someday, sometime soon, on the enemies of the world, so that our citizens, our allies’ citizens, indeed the sane citizens of all countries, can sleep safe and sound in peace.
Now even a good night’s sleep is due to the military defending our freedoms.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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