Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: Two of the Pious

The Debaters

The Desperate Object

Two of the Pious

A CHRISTIAN and a Heathen in His Blindness were disputing, when the Christian, with that charming consideration which serves to distinguish the truly pious from the wolves that perish, exclaimed:

"If I could have my way, I'd blow up all your gods with dynamite."

"And if I could have mine," retorted the Heathen in His Blindness, bitterly malevolent but oleaginuously suave, "I'd fan all yours out of the universe."

Contents

The Debaters

The Desperate Object