"A man got religion, and asked the priest what he must do to be worthy of his new estate. The priest said, "Imitate our Father in Heaven, learn to be like him." The man studied his Bible diligently and thoroughly and understandingly, and then with prayers for heavenly guidance instituted his imitations. He tricked his wife into falling downstairs, and she broke her back and became a paralytic for life; he betrayed his brother into the hands of a sharper, who robbed him of his all and landed him in the almshouse; he inoculated one son with hookworms, another with the sleeping sickness, another with gonorrhea; he furnished one daughter with scarlet fever and ushered her into her teens deaf, dumb, and blind for life; and after helping a rascal seduce the remaining one, he closed his doors against her and she died in a brothel cursing him.
2007-09-10 10:51:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Then he reported to the priest, who said that that was no way to imitate his Father in Heaven. The convert asked wherein he had failed, but the priest changed the subject and inquired what kind of weather he was having, up his way."
--Mark Twain
2007-09-10 10:51:45 · update #1
Well, doing unto others as they do to you is no way to do things either, here have one of my eyes. I have another one.ty
2007-09-10 10:56:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
precise now i myself do no longer think of that Catholic priests are in any place to evangelise against the information superhighway. For one factor they ought to absolutely freshen up their own ministries as an entire. 10 diocese's interior america have filed for financial ruin with the aid of their sexual misconduct in keeping with probability the information superhighway had something to do with that. for my area the information superhighway is like television there is powerful and undesirable provided by ability of the two yet ultimately you elect for what you partake of and what you dont and that's something i could think of that a clergyman or Minister wouldnt ought to tell you or legislate to you.
2016-12-16 16:44:43 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clever dog, that Mark Twain.
2007-09-16 19:51:27 · answer #3 · answered by smkeller 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rabbi Hillel gave better advice than Twain's priest.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it."
2007-09-10 11:00:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
No man on the face of the earth can be trusted, you should consult your deity instead!
2007-09-16 13:11:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
learn to love unconditionally like Jesus did OK follow his examples in the Bible OK Jesus said you are my disciples if you have love one for another and he also said love your neighbors as you love yourself OK look at other examples in gods word on luv ok its there in the Bible OK god bless ya
2007-09-18 07:44:01 · answer #6 · answered by cheryl m 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heh that is great.
Twain had a way of getting right to the point.
Being God like means justified abuse of gentiles.
2007-09-10 10:57:59 · answer #7 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
WOW - very cool I had never heard that -leave it to the church to change the subject and look away like so many other times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-09-10 11:04:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Mark Twain... I'll bet that's not even his real name.
2007-09-10 10:58:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 0⤋
what do you want to prove by this quote?
i can quote many of similar stories from islamic tradition
2007-09-18 06:33:29 · answer #10 · answered by jammal 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋