Mark Twain Quotes
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Twain, Mark. Christian Science. Harper & Brothers, 1907.
The congressman was a Biblical literalist. In this case he extended this method of knowing what is or is not potentially dangerous, to the absence of what the Bible says rather than a Biblical statement, If the Bible did not mention such a major event as global warming, it would not come to pass. Scientists are particularly distressed with this kind of analysis observing that there is nothing in the Bible abount nuclear energy, quantum mechanics, or black holes.
Essentially such a rigid conviction of unbelievers was common with both Protestants and Catholics in the middle of the second millennium, but Christian theology evolved and forgiveness and repentance became major factors. Islam did not so modernize so even in the 21st century a disbeliever deserved nothing from Muslims because Allah would never forgive them and they would be consigned to hell. So this Sura and {584363} made fundamentalist Muslim terrorists particularly willing to kill non-believers.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
