"At the bottom of Puritanism one finds envy of the fellow who is having a better time in the world, and hence hatred of him. At the bottom of democracy one finds the same thing."
"The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think."
-Henry Louis Mencken, as excerpted from A Little Book in C Major
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A smear based on a false stereotype of any other people group but devout Christians would be called hate speech.
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