The story is told of a shipwrecked
mariner who, floating on a small raft
in the South Seas, finally saw land.
“Oh, thank God,” he exclaimed as he
saw a gallows on the shore, “I am in a
Christian land.”
A castaway, seeing a gallows on shore, is relieved to have reached a Christian land—dark irony commenting on Christian civilization's historical failings.
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