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He saved Noah, and his family, and arranged to exterminate the rest. He planned an Ark, and Noah built it. Neither of them had ever built an Ark before nor knew anything about Arks; and so something out of the common was to be expected. It happened. Noah was a farmer...
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The Old Testament gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the New one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward. The Old Testament is interested mainly in blood and sensuality The New in Salvation. The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought hell. A way to pursue the dead beyond [the freedom of] the tomb
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The Creator devised a special affliction-agent for each and every detail of man's structure, overlooking not a single one...I will remark in passing that he always has his eye on the poor. Nine-tenths of his disease-inventions were intended for the poor, and they get them. The well-to-do get only what is left over. And one of the pulpit's finest and commonest names for the Creator is "The Friend of the Poor" ...
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This is a strange place. There is nothing resembling it at home. The people are all insane, the animals are all insane, the earth is insane, Nature itself is insane. Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable, first and last a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the "noblest work of God".
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…and although he knew what was required of the Ark he was quite incompetent to say whether this one would be large enough to meet the requirements or not (which it wasn't), so he ventured no advice. The Deity did not know it wasn't large enough, but took the chances and made no adequate measurements. In the end the ship fell far short of the necessities, and to this day the world still suffers for it. Noah built the Ark. He built it the best he could, but left out most of the essentials. It had no rudder, it had no sails, it had no compass, it had no pumps, it had no charts, no lead-lines, no anchors, no log, no light, no ventilation, and as for cargo room -- which was the main thing -- the less said about that the better. It was to be at sea eleven months, and would need fresh water enough to fill two Arks of its size -- yet the additional Ark was not provided. Water from outside could not be utilized: half of it would be salt water, and men and land animals could not drink it.
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Good work-around, Fionnuala, to add more in the comments. That’s some quote! Are you enjoying synthesizing all this Twain?
Jennifer wrote: "Good work-around, Fionnuala, to add more in the comments. That’s some quote! Are you enjoying synthesizing all this Twain?"Every Twain-bite of interest is so big, Jennifer, it would need a huge progress-update box. He's fairly gobbling up the Christian religion in this book, and while the utter disgruntlement in this book is a new side of him for me, I feel I've come across some of this thinking already in his other books though not so explicitly stated.
