"There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell. Measured by our Christianity of to-day, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the Deity nor His Son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt."
Mark Twain, "Reflections on Religion"
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Permalink Reply by Madhukar Kulkarni on January 19, 2012 at 11:06am I forgot add, that coming from Mark Twain and from what he says, the Americans may have to say much on this subject.
Permalink Reply by Madhukar Kulkarni on January 20, 2012 at 4:59pm Mark Twain was awesome no doubt, a literary giant as well as a rational thinker.
Permalink Reply by Minda Slade on January 26, 2012 at 8:14am mark taiwan was really a good man
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