Or their gods,
Strange! that you should not have suspected years ago–centuries, ages, eons, ago!–for you have existed, companionless, through all the eternities. Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! Strange because they are so frankly and hysterically insane–like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice and invented hell–mouths mercy and invented hell–mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him!.
By Mark Twain
Amen!!
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I can say that with you
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Twain’s THE man!
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That he was. I mean, that fellow was perceptive. He understood men
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Twain truly understood the depth of the fallacies that have been promoted over the oh-so-many years. Too bad he’s not required reading.
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You are right. He should be required reading everywhere but especially in churches
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Too bad there aren’t more of him.
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This is too bad. He was a towering giant
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Wow. Forget that Mtibi guy! THIS is the quote we should be reading over and over!
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I agree. Mbiti had swallowed a lot of Christianity
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BOOM. Nuff said.
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