2007-02-15 07:29:57 · 13 answers · asked by Contemplative Monkey 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Mark Twain had a living, breathing hatred of religion.
He never missed a chance to give it a knock.
Your quote is him laughing at people who believe something but can't explain it.
2007-02-15 07:33:15 · answer #1 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mark Twain was a big-time atheist and decidedly anti-Christian. Read his later writings on Adam and Eve and Christianity and his story where he demonstrates that sometimes lying is good.
What he means is that faith makes people believe things for which there is no proof.
2007-02-15 15:34:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think he was messed up.....I've always believed that faith is trusting in what you believe is so, but can't see it.....such as heaven. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Apparently, old Mark Twain had little faith or didn't believe in what he had faith in!! Is that possible??
2007-02-15 15:40:44 · answer #3 · answered by Karen A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mark Twain was an egotist and an atheist.
2007-02-15 15:40:43 · answer #4 · answered by Preacher 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It meant that even though you completely doubt or know something doesn't exist you call it faith and then try to believe it does exist.
He had a great sense of humor especially about dark comedy.
2007-02-15 15:34:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He meant that, although the mountains of evidence against something, faith in it would allow us to believe it to be true although there is no proof of it. You're head tells you no, but you're heart tells you otherwise. Some people should listen to their head and stop playing the emotional sap.
2007-02-15 15:35:29 · answer #6 · answered by Ghost Wolf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ohhh you mean the anti-semite mark twain?
2007-02-15 15:32:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I guess he meant that believing in some higher power is "knowing without knowing" Hopefully this helps.
2007-02-15 15:33:29 · answer #8 · answered by Haz the Preacher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is what is used in place of evidence for those concepts without rational support.
2007-02-15 15:33:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'd put it in layman's terms for you, but it's already being said that way. If you don't understand it, you're just not trying.
2007-02-15 15:33:33 · answer #10 · answered by kaiticometrue 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋