The effort to put down Christian Science by law is one of the craziest enterprises upon which medical men waste their energies. It is based upon a su… - H. L. Mencken

Though the theology of Christianity had thus sunk to the lowly estate of a mere delusion of the rabble, propagated on that level by the ancient caste of sacerdotal parasites, the ethics of Christianity continued to enjoy the utmost acceptance, and perhaps even more acceptance than ever before. It seemed to be generally felt, in fact, that they simply must be saved from the wreck—that the world would vanish into chaos if they went the way of the revelations supporting them. In this fear a great many judicious men joined, and so there arose what was, in essence, an absolutely new Christian cult—a cult, to wit, purged of all the supernaturalism superimposed upon the older cult by generations of theologians, and harking back to what was conceived to be the pure ethical doctrine of Jesus.

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

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