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A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving 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
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Billy Budd, Sailor (posthumous), ch 24, eds. Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. (1962).

Categories: Author, Chaplains, Christianity And Christians, War

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