Treatise on the gods

H. L. Mencken

*Treatise on the Gods* (1930) is H. L. Mencken's survey of the history and philosophy of religion, and was intended as an unofficial companion volume to his *Treatise on Right and Wrong* (1934). [...] Mencken considered it "my best book, and by far." [Wikipedia] "I am quite convinced that all religions, at bottom, are pretty much alike. On the surface they may seem to differ greatly, but what appears on the surface is not always religion. Go beneath it, and one finds invariably the same sense of helplessness before the cosmic mysteries, and the same pathetic attempt to resolve it by appealing to higher powers."--from Treatise on the Gods H. L. Mencken is perhaps best known for his scathing political satire. But politicians, as far as Mencken was concerned, had no monopoly on self-righteous chest-thumping, deceit, and thievery. He also found religion to be an adversary worthy...

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