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[twincityhacker]

Nicking this from hangingfire.

Technically, it's about the Great War.

Not so technically, it's about doing horrible things in the name of religion because you think God told you to do something that when you think of it, that it's not particularly in character for a loving God. Does God have nothing better to do in with His time than give a flying fuck about polyester blends? Is the leisure suit such a sin that you can be stoned to death for wearing one?

The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
Wilfred Owen

So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and strops,
And builded parapets and trenches there,
And stretched forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.

But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.