H. L. Mencken Quotes About God

• Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

  H. L. Mencken

  God, Being Happy, Cynical

  A Mencken Chrestomathy ch. 30 (1949)

• It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

  H. L. Mencken

  God, Believe, Son

  H. L. Mencken (2012). “In Defense of Women”, p.47, Courier Corporation

• Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

  H. L. Mencken

  God, Running, Religious

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.298, Knopf

• It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

  H. L. Mencken

  Sad, God, Long Distance Relationship

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.189, Knopf

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