“Bluntly put, a chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving in the host of the God of War—Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.”
--Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor (An inside narrative), 1891 (1924)
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About Me
- Radigan Neuhalfen
- Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Author of *The Steppe*, the novel of a man who lives alone in the Mongolian steppe, fighting -- and eating -- mythical monsters.
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