Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Mark Twain

“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



Mark Twain

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Mark Twain

“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”



Mark Twain

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Mark Twain

 

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also

- Mark Twain 


Mark Twain

Tuesday, January 29, 2013