God grant that it was so! You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ …
Attempting to justify and gain.
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invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
Be careful with what you ask for, because if you beg for something you may inflict a curse on someone else. To me it sounds like a form of greed.
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It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.
You can sense Twain's tone that these people(pastor/priest) were crazy and absurd, as they wished for bloodshed and suffering.
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When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory–must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
We speak on victory, but we don't speak on the consequences and sacrifices that have to be made in order to achieve them.
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“I come from the Throne — bearing a message from Almighty God!” …
You can almost feel the mockery in his writing before and after, Twain puts a lot of effort in order to prove his point.
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passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language
Emphasizes the absurdity.
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the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces alight with martial dreams — visions of the stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender!
Twain sarcastically points out the faces of the people and points out almost the absurdity because it seems like he's making fun of these people because they're using God's word to prove that God wants them to pursue the idea of imperialism. This is likely inspired by Polk's idea.
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patriot oratory
Type of worship towards the country, in a way it's almost religious.
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satire in the glow of America’s imperial interventions
This will be the main point for the rest of the article, following the irony in America's patriotism written as glow and the idea of imperialism.
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