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'''Henry Louis''' (H.L.) Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was a rabidly anti-Christian newspaper critic and journalist who savaged evangelicals, [[William Jennings Bryan]] and, more privately, blacks and Jews. In the 1920s the New York Times called him "the most powerful private citizen in the United States," and Walter Lippman said he was "the most powerful personal influence on this whole generation of educated people."<ref>NYT and Lippman quotations from ''H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken (1880-1956)'' in Contemporary Authors Online.</ref>

'''Henry Louis (H.L.) Mencken''' (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was a rabidly anti-Christian newspaper critic and journalist who savaged evangelicals, [[William Jennings Bryan]] and, more privately, blacks and Jews. In the 1920s the New York Times called him "the most powerful private citizen in the United States," and Walter Lippman said he was "the most powerful personal influence on this whole generation of educated people."<ref>NYT and Lippman quotations from ''H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken (1880-1956)'' in Contemporary Authors Online.</ref>

Twenty-five years after Mencken's death, the publication of his diary revealed him to be a complete bigot towards almost anyone other than his own German, including his remark that "There is no other Jew in Baltimore who seems suitable" to belong to a private club in Baltimore, after its only Jewish member passed away.  Of blacks Mencken said in 1943, "it is impossible to talk anything resembling discretion or judgment to a colored woman."<ref>The Diary of H. L. Mencken, published by Alfred A. Knopf.</ref>  But during his life, Mencken was lionized by his fellow [[liberal]] journalists as the "Sage of Baltimore," and to this day evolutionists are grateful to him for how he ridiculed (and misrepresented) the facts that transpired at the [[Scopes Trial]].   

Twenty-five years after Mencken's death, the publication of his diary revealed him to be a complete bigot towards almost anyone other than his own German, including his remark that "There is no other Jew in Baltimore who seems suitable" to belong to a private club in Baltimore, after its only Jewish member passed away.  Of blacks Mencken said in 1943, "it is impossible to talk anything resembling discretion or judgment to a colored woman."<ref>The Diary of H. L. Mencken, published by Alfred A. Knopf.</ref>  But during his life, Mencken was lionized by his fellow [[liberal]] journalists as the "Sage of Baltimore," and to this day evolutionists are grateful to him for how he ridiculed (and misrepresented) the facts that transpired at the [[Scopes Trial]].