"Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon……" — H. L. Mencken
"Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love."
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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site.
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces…
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You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared…
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
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In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
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