On Brutal Soldiers and Children
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This entry contains material that some people may find disturbing.How shall I bless him and what will this child be blessed with? asked the angel. Life—so it emerges from the song lyric—was among the options of the angel’s blessing. But after all, angels don’t exist, do they? And also faith that still craves with its last remnant of neurotic strength to isolate a sign of the existence of any deity whatsoever…
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