From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!wbux5!wb2!houxz!ihnp4!ihuxr!lew Newsgroups: net.religion Title: Letters From the Earth Article-I.D.: ihuxr.360 Posted: Sun Mar 13 23:17:43 1983 Received: Tue Mar 15 01:46:47 1983 Reply-To: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.) For a really scathing attack on conventional biblical piety, see Mark Twain's "Letters From the Earth". I won't offer any excerpts, because once he gets going, it's hard to stop him. This goes way beyond mere poking fun. It justifies the wonderment that a physics professor of mine had that Twain could remain such a sentimental American favorite after expressing such bitterly anti-religious sentiments. I suppose his continued favored status is a reflection of the same dislocation between content and perception that Twain points out in this essay. Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew