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Religion and Sanity Who Really Knows? In Mark Twains, the mysterious stranger, he tells a very enticing story that has you at the edge of your seat. He tells a story that incorporates morality, war, religion, and cruelty. Those are just a few for example. What caught my eye was his great use of religion in the book. It truly makes you think or rethink some things of how you may feel about your religion. Although I’m sure, his intentions are never to change someone preference of their religion, more of making them think. It made me have to think critically, and it challenged me. I found one of his quotes from this website, Twain, Mark. “The Mysterious Stranger.” The Mysterious Stranger Quotes. Goodreads, 2015. Web. Sept 1, 2015. “You are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I am but a …show more content…

How cruel and unforgiving but also how pleasant and amazing life is. He made you realize that death can sometimes be more peaceful than someone in a vegetative state and suffering. Twain, Mark. “The Mysterious Stranger.” The Mysterious Stranger Quotes. Goodreads, 2015. Web. Sept 1, 2015. “Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy, and not many of those. The few that imagine themselves kings or gods are happy, the rest are no happier than the sane. Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time, but I have been referring to the extreme cases. I have taken from this man that trumpery thing which the race regards as a Mind; I have replaced his tin life with a silver-gilt fiction; you see the result--and you

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