Mark TWAIN. Thoughts on religion (№ 90561)

Our Bible paints God's character with comprehensive and ruthless precision. The portrait that she offers us, is essentially the portrait of a man, of course, if you can imagine a man that's filled and overflowing with anger beyond human limits... All his acts depicted in the old Testament, talking about his grudge, injustice, pettiness, ruthlessness, vindictiveness. He only does that punish - punishes wrongdoing with a tiny fold severity; punishing innocent children for the misdeeds of their parents; punishes the innocent not the guilty inhabitants of the countries for the misdeeds of their rulers; and condescends even to the point that unleashes a bloody revenge on the meek calves, lambs, sheep and oxen, in order to punish trifling sins of their owners. More vile and revealing biographies in print does not exist. After reading it, you start to think of Nero angel...