Quotation for Tuesday

I thought of the poet Vachel Lindsay after posting my comments about Mark Harris the other day (Harris wrote a biography of Lindsay, though I haven't read it), and found this segment of his poem "The Unpardonable Sin" worth sharing:

"This is the sin against the Holy Ghost:--
To speak of bloody power as right devine,
And call on God to guard each vile chief's house,
And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine."