>On philosophical topics, he could be perceptive about Nietzsche, for
>example, but on philosophy of religion he was not so hot. If
>philosophy were that simple, we wouldn't need professional
>philosophers or postgraduate philosophy departments, would we? It
>would be like "Home Neurosurgery for Fun and Profit": "Heck, what's
>all the fuss about? Just saw the guy's skull open and hack that old
>tumor out of there."
Sounds like a Jeff Foxworthy routine about the undesirability of a redneck brain surgeon.
I dunno about Mencken's philiosophy of religion, but God do we need someone of his talents at making fun of it. We got a born agin'er in the WH and there's just not enough ruthless satire about it.
Doug