He mentions several desires that humans naturally have, yet the Bible forbids them. He argues that a just and loving God would not allow people to have evil desires, while telling them that they will be punished for acting on them. Throughout the story, Twain also draws comparisons between the nature of God and that of men. He suggests that God lacks empathy and tenderness toward humanity because he punishes everyone equally. On the other hand, man only punishes those who are responsible for wrongdoing. An example Twain uses is when God destroyed the earth, but saved Noah, along with his family and a number of animals, in the ark. Twain chose to focus on those who were left behind. He plays with readers' emotions by providing vivid images of people helplessly crying out to God to save them. He writes of the “lamentations” of “…the multitude of weeping fathers and mothers and frightened little children who clung to the wave-swept rocks in the pouring rain and lifted up imploring prayers to an All-Righteous One, All Forgiver and All-Pitiful Being who had never answered a prayer...". He also uses obvious sarcasm to make the point that God does not care about them and will continue to ignore their pleas. Twain used the same example to suggest that God not only allows bad things to happen to people, but that He