Religion’s the thing.

Embrace it and doors open.

But, it has to be the right kind of religion.

“Religiously correct.”

Is your heart in it?

Doesn’t matter.

Wear it on your sleeve.

The show’s the thing.

Only the good-at-heart will have trouble with this, which is something that Mark Twain, that chronicler of post-Civil War America, understood.

Here’s an illustration, with Twain, speaking through the voice of Huckleberry Finn, a good-hearted boy in an evil, racist society who, try as he might, just can’t fit in.

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