What do you think of Mark Twain's War Prayer. I understand that he once said "I believe I have received moral laws only from man and none whatever from God."

This is my opinion for what it's worth but from that really short story and prayer he seems to be making a mockery of religion and Christianity in particular. The part of the prayer that gets me is " O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, ..."

This goes against everything the Catholic teaching on Just War. To me his trying to make a point that prayer is useless because the other side may be praying for the same thing.

Your comments.