Crumbles
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im reading letters from the earth right now and its one of the greatest pieces of literature my eyes have ever come across. the passage below is from a letter i just finished it and it just pulls me in for some reason
While it is true that the palm for malignity must be granted to Jesus, the inventor of hell, he was hard and ungentle enough for all godlike purposes even before he became a Christian. It does not appear that he ever stopped to reflect that he was to blame when a man went wrong, inasmuch as the man was merely acting in accordance with the disposition he had afflicted him with. No, he punished the man, instead of punishing himself. Moreover, the punishment usually oversized the offense. Often, too, it fell, not upon the doer of a misdeed, but upon somebody else -- a chief man, the head of a community, for instance.
Its by Mark Twain and its basically about a young archangel satan sending letters to Gabriel and St. Michael talking about the human race and god. its something anybody could enjoy from aetheists to preachers.
While it is true that the palm for malignity must be granted to Jesus, the inventor of hell, he was hard and ungentle enough for all godlike purposes even before he became a Christian. It does not appear that he ever stopped to reflect that he was to blame when a man went wrong, inasmuch as the man was merely acting in accordance with the disposition he had afflicted him with. No, he punished the man, instead of punishing himself. Moreover, the punishment usually oversized the offense. Often, too, it fell, not upon the doer of a misdeed, but upon somebody else -- a chief man, the head of a community, for instance.
Its by Mark Twain and its basically about a young archangel satan sending letters to Gabriel and St. Michael talking about the human race and god. its something anybody could enjoy from aetheists to preachers.