RE: Let's be honest
May 20, 2023 at 11:30 am
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2023 at 11:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Twain offered some of the most consistent and consistently damning appraisals of religion as practiced in all of english lit. That said, he wasn't chiefly opposed to religious principles, rather, he was obsessed with religious hypocrisy. It consumed him. It was public in his works, even more prodigious in his notes...and all of that, was carefully managed, to be less than the full measure of his thoughts because he knew it would be harmful to him as a person and author. All summed up brilliantly in a single quote. If christ were here there is one thing he would not be - a christian. Elaborated upon at length in War Prayer.
A more comprehensive view might suggest that it was precisely because twain was deeply committed to religious principles (as he saw them - and ideologically) that he offered the remarks about their misuse that he so frequently did. One thing he absolutely was not, was an atheist.
A more comprehensive view might suggest that it was precisely because twain was deeply committed to religious principles (as he saw them - and ideologically) that he offered the remarks about their misuse that he so frequently did. One thing he absolutely was not, was an atheist.
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