Posted by sigismund on September 30, 2010, at 18:39:57
In reply to Re: Lou's request-suopurpsehihn » Lou Pilder, posted by sigismund on September 30, 2010, at 2:52:47
If men create God in their own image, perhaps He felt this?
"Those that escaped the fire were slain with the sword, some hewed to pieces, others run through with their rapiers, so as they were quickly dispatched and very few escaped. It was conceived that they thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stink and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to enclose their enemies in their hands and give them so speedy a victory over so proud and insulting an enemy."
William Bradford, 1637, on the destruction of the Pequod settlement in Connecticut.
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