[Destro]

I posted the prayers not to show that one religion or the other has the ear of God. I posted them because prayers and what is asked for in prayers tells you something about the society that spawned such prayers.

In truth--which civilization's soldiers prayer would be closest to what we secular Americans/Europeans consider civilized and humane expressions of military might? The Christian one or the Muslim one?

[TomSmedley]

SPeaking as a soldier in the current cultural war -- I view the "TAG" (talented and gifted) programs of the public school system as a technique for raising up janissaries for the needs of the self-deifying State.