Tom Sawyer came up with a stealing game and shared it with all his friends. But since “it would be wrong to do it [robbing and killing people] on a Sunday” (Twain 10), they decided to choose another day. For these naive children, only on Sundays should they be virtuous and on other days they can be as naughty as they want. Likewise, the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons would go to church and "take their weapons with them and keep them between their knees or place them within reach against the wall" (Twain 109), ready to attack each other. kill every second. It is ridiculous that the feud between two families has lasted for almost thirty years while “everyone said it was a good sermon” that spoke of brotherly love and free grace. The irony is that by the second day, many people were killed in combat. Not only these truculent civilized Christians, but also benevolent townspeople like Miss Watson go against the morality of religion. “It's Miss Watson - she pecks me all the time, and treats me roughly, but she always said she wouldn't sell me to Orléans” (Twain 43). Miss Watson never treats Jim like a person and enslaves him like cattle all the time. Christianity teaches them to love and help each other and slavery obviously goes against that. Additionally, religion can sometimes be used to gain control