Carolina QuotesOne thing's for sure: if Mark Twain could have read A Course in Miracles, he never would have called the Book of Mormon "chloroform in print". Utterly without redeeming value (take that any way you want), the only conceivable importance of A Course in Miracles is a testimony to the pathetic state of spiritual hunger and confusion on the part of late twentieth-century American "seekers."
Robert M. Price Connected to the Carolinas
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P. 131
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- Top Secret (2008)
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- 2008
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- P. 131
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“One thing's for sure: if Mark Twain could have read A Course…” Robert M. Price. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-B4C1A72935. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/b4c1a72935
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