You might start with Chapter 31 of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. After all, Huck decides quite firmly that he's going to ignore his conscience, ignore the teachings of the church, and decides to "take up wickedness again." In fact, he says to himself, "All right, then, I'll *go* to hell." Please read that chapter very carefully. You may need to read it a few times. This passage, perhaps more than any other, will give you the spirit of Twain's "anti-Christian thoughts." Alan Eliasen