What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: H…

H. L. Mencken
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What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell. ✨ H.L. Mencken (2013). Minority Report, p.180, Knopf
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Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. ✨ H.L. Mencken (2012). Mencken Chrestomathy, p.617, Vintage
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.
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What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell. ✨ H.L. Mencken (2013). Minority Report, p.180, Knopf

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