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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