It’s YouTube time! But it is also sad time. Because this short film from 2003 dramatizes a short story by Mark Twain, in which a messenger from God reveals the dark meaning of a patriotic prayer.
(Full text of “The War Prayer”)
Of course, many modern evangelical churches would never pray for military success per se; just for safety of troops. Could sentiments like Twain’s be what turned the New Evangelicals against the war in Iraq, or are they just following the rest of America in growing unrest?
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