![]() ![]() Here is part of the set up to the letters, a discussion between Gabriel, Michael, and Satan after a heavenly committee meeting: We see moments of this well-applied wit at play. His incisive intelligence and wit are just the tools needed to frame up a demonic view that could cut to the heart of the skeptical critique of faith in an entertaining way. 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. ![]()
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