Mark Twain Quotes On Religion

Let men label you as they may, if you alone of all the nation decide one way, and that way be the right way by your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country, hold up your head for you have nothing to be ashamed of.”. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to. Twain criticized the character of god, predestination, the calvinist concept of election, christ’s “invention” of hell, god’s alleged admission of only a small percentage of people to heaven and numerous other christian doctrines.

Sometimes he believed death ended everything, but most of the time he felt sure of a life beyond. His daughter said of him: Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in.

— jodi picoult religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. Twain seems to have struggled with many aspects of religion, often taking opportunity to mock it. It is that there is a god for the rich man but none for the poor. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the unreasoning animal.