Contra la religión

"Against Religion" brings together several short texts, of those considered cursed, dictated by Mark Twain in 1906 and published years after his death, as his daughter Clara always opposed it. In 1963, already old and ill, she agreed to have them published along with other unpublished texts by her father. These are passionate writings on the nature and character of God, the unreason and the "inventive poverty" of the Bible. Mark Twain does not hesitate to affirm: God's acts reveal his "unjust, greedy, ruthless and vengeful" nature of him; the creation of Hell is his "prodigious crime of him"; "We would detest and denounce an earthly father who inflicted on his son one thousandth of the pain and misery that He dispenses to his children every day."