"One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is
the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
…[This] convention protects them, and so they proceed with their blather
unwhipped and almost unmolested, to the great damage of common sense
and common decency. That they should have this immunity is an outrage.
There is nothing in religious ideas, as a class, to lift them above
other ideas. On the contrary, they are always dubious and often quite
silly. Nor is there any visible intellectual dignity in theologians. Few
of them know anything that is worth knowing, and not many of them are
even honest." -
H.L. Mencken
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