Letters from Earth

by Mark Twain

Letter XI

Human history in all ages is red with blood, bitter with hate and stained with cruelties. The Church is credited with having spilt more innocent blood than all the political wars put together. When The Lord God of Heaven and Earth, adored Father of man, goes to war, there is no limit. He is totally without mercy - He, who is called the Fountain of Mercy. He slays, slays, slays! All the men, beasts, boys, babies, also all the women and girls, except those that have not been deflowered. He makes no distinction between the innocent and guilty. The innocent had to suffer with the guilty. What the insane Father required was blood and misery; He was indifferent as to who furnished it.

The heaviest punishment of all was melted out to persons who could not have deserved so horrible a fate - the 32,000 virgins. Their naked privacies were probed, to make sure that they still possessed the hymen unruptured. They were then sold into the shamefulest slavery, the slavery of prostitution to satisfy any buyer with their bodies, be he a gentleman or a course and filthy ruffian.

It was the Father who inflicted this ferocious and undeserved punishment upon those virgins whose parents He had slaughtered before their eyes. And were they praying to Him for pity and rescue, meantime? Without a doubt of it. Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals?

Finis: Mark Twain

Mark Twain did request this work not be published until after his death - probably wise.

It’s certainly refreshing to find another’s observations as critical as my own. GWD

Numbers 32:10-13 Because the Israelites didn't want to kill and die for any more land, angry God (again) swore: None of the men, who came out of Egypt, from 20 years old and older, shall ever see the land that I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me. God displayed anger against Israel and made them wander for 40 years in the desert until they died out.

Instead of God fulfilling His promise, it is obvious now that God had made His promise conditional. Being true to what's become an evil character, God made His chosen people wander in the wilderness until they died.