Saki - Christianity Quotes

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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

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Didn't some cynical critic say the Church of England is the only barrier between England and Christianity?

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"I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion," [Clovis] resumed presently. "They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster."

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