If anyone could write an atheist Screwtape or become a new Voltaire for a generation trying to seek liberty from religion, Mark Twain would be the man. When I heard about this book I hunted for it immediately. Satan has taken a kind of backpacker’s tour of Earth’s history, curious about this beast called human who has been granted-really, cursed with-the faculty of moral judgment and relational responsibility. This little book, incomplete I think, contains a series of notes from Satan to his best friends Michael and Gabriel back in heaven. Letters from Earth was written in 1909 but not published until long after his death in 1962. One of the readers of A Pilgrim in Narnia tipped me off to a lost-but-found work by Mark Twain.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |