I scanned this comment out of a book I'm reading.
This was written by H. L. Mencken on page 252 of "Treatise On The Gods." He published it in 1930.
Apparently Americans were smarter as a group 80 years ago.
Quote:Save among politicians it is no longer necessary
for any educated American to profess belief
in Thirteenth Century ideas. The rise of biology,
the great event of the Nineteenth Century, is responsible
for that change, and especially the appearance and acceptance
of the Darwinian hypothesis of organic evolution.
Darwin, to be sure, did not answer any of the basic riddles
of existence, but he at least showed that the theological
answers were rubbish, and he thereby completed the revolutionary
work of Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Harvey
and Leeuwenhoek. Today no really civilized man or
woman believes in the cosmogony of Genesis, nor in the
reality of Hell, nor in any of the other ancient imbecilities
that still entertain the mob. What survives under the name
of Christianity, above the stratum of that mob, is no more
than a sort of Humanism, with hardly more supernaturalism
in it than you will find in mathematics or political
economy.
This was written by H. L. Mencken on page 252 of "Treatise On The Gods." He published it in 1930.
Apparently Americans were smarter as a group 80 years ago.
