This is what Samuel Clemens had to say about religion:
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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life--hence it is a valuable possession to him.
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In other words, yes. He was an atheist. But he was also a really fucking nice one.
Also, I'm a direct descendant of Samuel Clemens. Cool, but ultimately meaningless.