#2 "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (Brought Up To Date) by Mark Twain, 1901.

[@dennischallinor8497]

Mark Twain once said: "If Jesus Christ came back to earth today I don't think he'd be a Christain." How true!!!

[@cavscout888]

Are you saying that the elites corrupt all major institutions once there's power to be found in them?? Noooooo. ;)

[@dennischallinor8497]

@@cavscout888 Like Christopher Hitchens I believe religion is BS.

[@cavscout888]

@@dennischallinor8497 Ya, that's a lot of people. Powerful groups have spent, at least, many decades conditioning people that religion is fake and bad, and that morals are completely objective. A nation made up of strong individuals with strong, shared moral foundations make for a very strong nation, which is really hard to collapse and control. While that random journalist you mentioned wasn't religious, Nikola Tesla absolutely was. 'Smartest' man ever??

[@martindollete]

Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the Sword; He is searching out the hoardings where the stranger's wealth is stored; He hath loosed his fateful lightnings, and with woe and death has scored; His lust is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the Eastern dews and damps; I have read his doomful mission by the dim and flaring lamps- His night is marching on. I have read his bandit gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my pretensions, so with you my wrath shall deal; Let the faithless son of Freedom crush the patriot with his heel; Lo, Greed is marching on!" We have legalized the strumpet and are guarding her retreat;* Greed is seeking out commercial souls before his judgement seat; O, be swift, ye clods, to answer him! be jubilant my feet! Our god is marching on! In a sordid slime harmonious Greed was born in yonder ditch, With a longing in his bosom-and for others' goods an itch. As Christ died to make men holy, let men die to make us rich- Our god is marching on.

[@gingw7333]

Just as true in 2022. Only with much more deadly destructive weapons. 😪

[@jaysonwallker1648]

I was wondering why I was so much into parodies and writing them, I'm actually a descendant of Sam's. I'm also a BMI songwriter

[@migukmoonpark4312]

Learned about this in a Facebook suggestion and immediately searched for it.

[@rhenz111]

thanks for watching!

[@georgeivandavidabueg6679]

I saw the article aswell