Mark TWAIN. Thoughts on religion (№ 390289)

The Scriptures definitely have the same characteristic drawbacks. All of them are just pathetic poverty of imagination. It catches the eye first. The second drawback is that each without the slightest on the right claim to originality. Every extensively borrows from previous without reference to the source, which, of course, is a dishonest act. Each in turn assigns the decayed previous props and ingenuous confidence, trying to give his most recent and final revelation, just received from heaven.