We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own
iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the
clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881) "Amiel's Journal" (1883)
iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the
clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881) "Amiel's Journal" (1883)
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--
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