Mark Twain, "Bible Teaching and Religious Practice"torgo_xApril 11 2012, 02:40:31 UTC
You must must must read a shining work of genius by the already brilliant essayist Mark Twain: "Bible Teaching and Religious Practice". A pullquote from the short essay:
"...The texts remain: it is the practice that has changed. Why? Because the world has corrected the Bible. The Church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession - and take the credit of the correction. As she will presently do in this instance..."
(I say "the essayist Mark Twain", here and at every opportunity, to try to oppose the common slander that the way to think of him, primarily or ever, is as the author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Judging him by those two disasters is as crude as judging him by his haircut.)
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"...The texts remain: it is the practice that has changed. Why? Because the world has corrected the Bible. The Church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession - and take the credit of the correction. As she will presently do in this instance..."
(I say "the essayist Mark Twain", here and at every opportunity, to try to oppose the common slander that the way to think of him, primarily or ever, is as the author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Judging him by those two disasters is as crude as judging him by his haircut.)
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