Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
atheist responsibility men
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then 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!
atheist departure helping
I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
atheist character angel
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.
atheist men church
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
faith atheist believe
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""
religious atheist believe
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
inspirational death atheist
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
atheist prayer book
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
inspirational motivational atheist
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
death religious atheist
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
atheist believe religion
In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.
inspirational life atheist
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
atheist thug if-there-is-a-god
If there is a God, he is a malign thug.
spiritual atheist common-humanity
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?