Sarcastic Mark Twain book aimed at the Bible and Christianity. Sometimes it hits the mark, sometimes it simply reveals the prejudices of his time.
Quotes:
Man is an experiment, the other animals are another experiment. Time will show whether they were worth the trouble.
there has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else’s.
The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people’s Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.
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