If the dopers are falling back on a turd like Hightower to defend them, they must be desperate indeed.
Oh, and here are some more deep thoughts from your font of wisdom, H.L. Mencken:
“I admit freely enough that, by careful breeding, supervision of environment and education, extending over many generations, it might be possible to make an appreciable improvement in the stock of the American negro, for example, but I must maintain that this enterprise would be a ridiculous waste of energy, for there is a high-caste white stock ready at hand, and it is inconceivable that the negro stock, however carefully it might be nurtured, could ever even remotely approach it. The educated negro of today is a failure, not because he meets insuperable difficulties in life, but because he is a negro. He is, in brief, a low-caste man, to the manner born, and he will remain inert and inefficient until fifty generations of him have lived in civilization. And even then, the superior white race will be fifty generations ahead of him.”
“If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame. All animal breeders know how difficult it is to maintain a fine strain. ”
Women "as a sex, are shrewd, resourceful, and acute; but the very fact that they are always concerned with imminent problems and that, in consequence, they are unaccustomed to dealing with the larger riddles of life, makes their mental attitude essentially petty."
“The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.”
“If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object."
Anglo-Saxons are “a wretchedly dirty, shiftless, stupid and rascally people . . . anthropoids.”
Religion is “so absurd that it comes close to imbecility.”
“Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions.”
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. . . . A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.”
I never said the man was jesus that wrote a new bible. he did have some off kilter beliefs hes incredible wrong on race relations but I think that had more to do with the fact that he was born in 1880 when it was practically illegal not to be a rascist then anything else and he was one of the first to come to the aid of the jews in germany long before most americans or even germans heard of the final solution. He is flat out right on prohibition in what ever form it takes be it alchohol, drugs, cigarettes,sugar or trans fat.
One has to be able to read in context and understand sarcasm (a rare thing here on FR) to read Menchen.
Mencken held more than a few views that were unsubstantiated by facts, but this one is simple truth. No church can perpetuate its existence if its members believe they are obligated to grow spiritually and seek higher truths.
Menken had an edge, didn't he, Sir B.
Imagine a country where you can say or write whatever you want.
It's easier and cheaper today than ever before. Good stuff too.