Glorantha Digest Volume 04 : Number 143 seemed to be a repeat of an earlier issue, but also had a new post from me, "The Army of the Lord" listed in the contents. However, the post itself didn't appear. Not that what I said was very important, but here 'tis again then:
s.lucek_at_ic.ac.uk:
>Even a religion which preaches pacifism (Christianity), when threatened
>produces warrior priests to defend itself (Pope Leo iv, the Archbishops
>of York in the War of the Roses, etc.).
Don't forget Maj. (later Lieut.) Gen. Leonidas Polk, the Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana who jumped out of his pulpit to command a Confederate Army in the American Civil War. [For my current bedtime reading I am wading through Shelby Foote's incredible 3 volume history of the conflict: I've just got to a very moving bit where Polk visits a church outside Perryville (1862). The bishop-general knelt at the altar as his chaplain read the litany and pronounced the benediction, "accompanied by the murmur of rain against the stained-glass windows." Shelby goes on to write, "...overcome by emotion as he contrasted the peace of the present interlude with what he had seen yesterday in one of the great battles of that fratricidal war, the gray-clad bishop bowed his head and wept." Now that's how history *should* be written!]
And just to give this post a modicum of Gloranthan content, even Lunar Generals preach peace and pacifism, and know they will have it once the whole world sees the light and converts to the Lunar Way!
Cheers
MOB
End of Glorantha Digest V4 #144
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