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H. L. Mencken Quotes about Religion

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Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Motivational, Religion, Atheism

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.

Religious, Hate, Religion

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Freedom, Democracies Have, Religion

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.

Believe, Thinking, Religion

"What I Believe". "The Forum", 84, (p. 139), September 1930.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Religion, Communism, Made

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.277, Knopf

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

Christian, Wife, Religion

"A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

Religion, Atheism, Might

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

Atheist, Religion, Atheism

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

Character, Civilization, Religion

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

Religion, Liberty, Morality

"A little book in C major".

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Believe, Religion, Occupation

Prejudices (1926).

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

Essence, Ideas, Religion

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Religion, Atheism, Proof

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.311, Knopf

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Sad, Motherhood, Religion

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

Religious, Religion, Atheism

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.80, Vintage

All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.

Order, Religion, Atheism

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.89, Vintage

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

Religious, Believe, Religion

"What I Believe" in The Forum 84 (p. 139), September 1930.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

Happiness, Men, Religion

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.163, Vintage

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

Father, Religion, Dignity

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.178, Vintage

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

Thinking, Religion, Trying

H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

Religion, Fifty, May

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