Mark Twain's Thoughts on God

"Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane - like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice and invented hell - mouths mercy and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him! . . ."
~ Mark Twain

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[1RationalMind]

Mark Twain was so very insightful on the faults of the pathetic god of the bible.

Nice graphics!

[aartvegan]

Mark Twain was one of the greatest.. There are other atheist quotes from him.

[JustinTheAtheist]

@megatyler29 What about Horus?! He gave his life for us before Jesus, and I hear he loves me just a little more than Jesus ever did!

[joeldewitt]

as I am his forth cousin am surprised by these words

[Blasthood]

@megatyler29 Lies moar lies plox. Fairy tales are nothing more than fairy tales.

[megatyler29]

@topcat2726 trust me, you cant convert me, thats kinda the point of faith. and yeah the god does seem kinda "fearful" in some of the bible, but he also shows his love for us as in giving his only son to save us from our sins. no matter how you put it jesus was pretty awesome, i mean after all of the pain he went through and getting crucified all he said was "forgive them father the know not what they do." and yes every man in the world is pretty much a sinner, nobody is perfect.

[topcat2726]

@megatyler29 you believe what you want but if i believed in something so much i would gladly be challenged by someone as it would give me a chance to convert them. which is btw something you should be doing as a believer. if you believe in god then you should definitely fear him. if you read the bible with an open mind you can clearly see he is vengeful and quick to carelessly commit genocide! are you telling me every man in the world was a sinner and noah was the only worthy human of living?

[JustinTheAtheist]

@megatyler29 I'm all for getting along and loving one another, but dude you insulted me and demeaned me. How am I supposed to take that? Because I'm an atheist, I'm just supposed to take the insults and demeaning comments towards me by everyone? Nah, I think I'll stand up for myself. If you don't want to comment back, it's fine, but you have offended me.

[megatyler29]

@JustinTheAtheist okay were you alive like 2000 years ago? i dont even know what the hell you are trying to disprove. but whatever ill believe and you dont have to its fine. just dont give me responses thinking oh thats just some stupid christian with his stupid ass beliefs cause that offends me you know? lets just all get along duuude

[megatyler29]

@topcat2726 who says i fear god? cause i dont, i fear the devil haha but i dont want to start a stupid debate or anything lets just leave it as ill believe and you do what you want, i dont really care.

[topcat2726]

@thegoddescomposer im glad i saw the "light" and stopped being a christian. after 21 years of being a christian i finally did my research and looked deep into the religion and it became pretty obvious i could not follow this whimsical attempt at explaining life. most of my family are christian and they dont really know why? it is basically something passed on and reinforced by parents. if you REALLy do your research you should find your beliefs at the very least challenged. or you are stupid.

[topcat2726]

@megatyler29 this did not make you think at all did it? is there is a god, you only worship him because you fear him. how can you love a god like that?