Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@millinerd As a child, war memorials in church helped turn me against religion. Conscripting Christ to sacralize any nation's slaughter struck me as insane. I understand grief and gratitude placed the flags there. The theology is still wrong. Both things can be true.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 5 Sept 2023
@culturaltutor Powerfully affected me as a teen, visiting those cemeteries. Most of the dead barely a year or two older than me it seemed and the gravestones went on forever. 'This Dead Sea of arrested lives,' Kipling called them. Have you read his short-story, 'The Gardener'?
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