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That was an exercise in anti-Catholic bigotry on the part of Twain. "[I]t is to be considered a shameful period piece, written at a time when it was acceptable

• rsj_hn 5y ago
  yes, that's true, but it's a great story and today most people don't care about the various social satires in it. Just like Dante placed lots of his political and social opponents in Hell, but it goes over the heads of most readers, who in any case are more interested in the timeless qualities of the story than the bickering about long forgotten debates.
• 0134340 5y ago
  The author of that article who kept looking for reasons to be offended bluntly dismisses the Church's endorsement of slavery because it was standard practice at the time while also basically calling Twain a bigot because of his southern American-based view of Catholicism, which was also standard practice at the time. You and the author both act both bigoted and ignorant towards Twain and call him childish in response to perceived bigotry. Twain was also not an atheist, he was a deist who attended church regularly. Someone can be of a religion and also criticize religion, it doesn't mean they're an atheist because as we all know, religions aren't perfect. But at least to the author's credit, he took a bit higher road than you and didn't go as far as calling Twain "childish".