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Mark Twain wrote The War Prayer in 1905, in response to the Spanish–American War and the subsequent Philippine–American War. As it satirizes blind patriotism and the religious hypocrisy of blessing military conflict, it remained unpublished until after his death in 1910 at the behest of his family, who feared possible public backlash if people considered the story sacrilegious.
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