God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the …

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God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance. ✨ Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). Mark Twain's notebook, Scholarly Pr
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