Theology Quotes by H. L. Mencken

10 Theology quotes by H. L. Mencken

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When you need a dose of cynicism about organized religion, Mencken’s brief but cutting remarks provide a clear window into his skeptical worldview.

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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

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[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and…

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The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed…

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The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he…

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It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age…

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By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its…

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As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and…

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There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He…

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The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and…

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The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be,…

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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

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Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead.

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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

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For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must…

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There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend…

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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

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Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own…

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To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue…

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Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

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For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not…

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