Twain
So in his later years, Mark Twain had a nice, healthy obsession with Satan. I'm currently reading "Letters from the Earth," where Twain writes as Satan, sending letters home to the archangels in Heaven all about his stay on Earth. The bashing of God and organized religion seems so wrong, but if you stop to think about what he's saying, it's FUNNY, because some of it makes sense.
Example #1: Satan is incredulus because man invented a Heaven that is supposed to be great and wonderful, but left out of it the "greatest of all arts," sex.
Example #2: Man envisions a Heaven where there are choirs of angels singing constantly and harps playing, when in his daily life, man cannot stand singing for longer than a 2 hour period and 20 in 1,000 men play the harp. Satan says he has never seen a man in his later years with a harp, or practicing his singing skills in preparation for the world to come.
Example #3: God helped Noah build an Ark. Neither God nor Noah had ever built an Ark before, so trouble was to be expected.
At least, as I'm being forced to read mass quantities, I can be amused and horrified in the process.
I recommend this book.
Example #1: Satan is incredulus because man invented a Heaven that is supposed to be great and wonderful, but left out of it the "greatest of all arts," sex.
Example #2: Man envisions a Heaven where there are choirs of angels singing constantly and harps playing, when in his daily life, man cannot stand singing for longer than a 2 hour period and 20 in 1,000 men play the harp. Satan says he has never seen a man in his later years with a harp, or practicing his singing skills in preparation for the world to come.
Example #3: God helped Noah build an Ark. Neither God nor Noah had ever built an Ark before, so trouble was to be expected.
At least, as I'm being forced to read mass quantities, I can be amused and horrified in the process.
I recommend this book.