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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 Lippmann]] 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>
Mencken was obsessed with social status. He broke off a relationship to his lover, Marion Bloom, because she had not been wealthy or sophisticated enough, as well as his disdain towards her conversion to [[Christianity and Science|Christianity Science]].
Mencken had contempt for religion and [[faith]], and liberals chuckled at his many colorful quotes, such as:<ref>http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/H._L._Mencken</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 ethnicity, 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]].
Mencken had contempt for religion and [[faith]], such as:<ref>http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/H._L._Mencken</ref>
:Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
:Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H.L. Mencken had this to say about moral victories: "In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished."<ref>http://www.lewrockwell.com/jarvis/jarvis34.html</ref>
H.L. Mencken had this to say about moral victories: "In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished."<ref>http://www.lewrockwell.com/jarvis/jarvis34.html</ref>
H.L.Mencken's extraordinarily bigotted obituary of Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential nominee and Secretary of State under President [[Woodrow Wilson]], concluded with the following:<ref>http://www.peeniewallie.com/2005/06/h_l_menckens_ob.html</ref>
H.L.Mencken's extraordinarily bigotted obituary of Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential nominee and [[Secretary of State]] under President [[Woodrow Wilson]], concluded with the following:<ref>http://www.peeniewallie.com/2005/06/h_l_menckens_ob.html</ref>
:Bryan, at his best, was simply a magnificent job-seeker. The issues that he bawled about usually meant nothing to him. He was ready to abandon them whenever he could make votes by doing so, and to take up new ones at a moment's notice. For years he evaded Prohibition as dangerous; then he embraced it as profitable. At the Democratic National Convention last year he was on both sides, and distrusted by both. In his last great battle there was only a baleful and ridiculous malignancy. If he was pathetic, he was also disgusting.
:Bryan, at his best, was simply a magnificent job-seeker. The issues that he bawled about usually meant nothing to him. He was ready to abandon them whenever he could make votes by doing so, and to take up new ones at a moment's notice. For years he evaded Prohibition as dangerous; then he embraced it as profitable. At the Democratic National Convention last year he was on both sides, and distrusted by both. In his last great battle there was only a baleful and ridiculous malignancy. If he was pathetic, he was also disgusting.