Quote of the day

"The meaning of religious freedom, I fear, is somtimes greatly misapprehended. It is taken to be a sort of immunity, not merely from governmental control, but also from public opinion. A dunderhead gets himself a long-tailed coat, rises behind the sacred desk, and emits such bilge as would gag a Hottentot. Is it to pass unchallenged? If so, then what we have is not religious freedom at all, but the most intolerable and outrageous variety of religious despotism." - H.L. Mencken, on the Scopes Trial.

I admit, I'm a sucker for Mencken. He is the unrestrained Id of the athiest, unmoderated by convention or propriety. What he lacks in subtlety and tact, he makes up for with sarcastic contempt and venom.