Mark Twain (1835-1910) was the pre-eminent writer of his time. He traveled the world, observed and experienced. Christianity and Christians did not impress him. Here are some of his comments -
There has been only one Christian. They caught him and crucified him--early.
- Notebook, 1898
I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble. - Mark Twain in Eruption
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be--a Christian.
- Mark Twain's Notebook
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence--stuffed and in a museum.
- Notebook, 1898
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
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There has been only one Christian. They caught him and crucified him--early.
- Notebook, 1898
I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble. - Mark Twain in Eruption
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be--a Christian.
- Mark Twain's Notebook
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence--stuffed and in a museum.
- Notebook, 1898
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
(feel free to re-post and / or link to your social media)
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