> 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.
Sure, ruthless satire is great -- nothing is sacred. (A famous saying of Bodhidharma, the legendary founder of the Zen tradition, by the way.) But there is also a place for clear thinking about religion, as there is about any other subject.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ Belinda: Ay, but you know we must return good for evil. Lady Brute: That may be a mistake in the translation.
-- Sir John Vanbrugh: The Provok’d Wife (1697), I.i.