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Letters From The Earth: An Atheist Classic!
Letters From The Earth An Atheist Classic Author:Mark Twain An Atheist Classic! Twain wrote "I procured from the high priest of this ancient Samaritan community, at great expense, a secret document of still higher antiquity and far more extraordinary interest, which I propose to publish as soon as I have finished translating it." These were the letters written by the archangel Satan to archangels Gabri... more »el and Michael, about his observations on the curious proceedings of earthly life and the nature of man's religions. Home spun American hero Mark Twain alternately employs his cutting wit, satire to spoof Christianity & it's foolish beliefs (e.g. most men desire sex to the point of risking heaven, yet they imagine a heaven - the most wonderful place possible - as a place with no sex; most men prefer never to sing and never ever to sing in public, yet they imagine a heaven of ceaseless, eternal singing; etc.) and his scathing moral outrage on other parts of the Old Testament (passages encouraging genocide, rape, and particularly violent rape).« less