Treatise on the Gods

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395 g

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Johns Hopkins University Press

Kurzbeschreibung

H. L. Mencken is perhaps best known for his scathing political satire. But politicians, as far as Mencken was concerned, had no monopoly on self-righteous chest-thumping deceit and thievery. He also found religion to be an adversary worthy of his attention and, in Treatise on the Gods, he offers some of his best shots, a choreographed cannonade. Here Mencken examines religion everywhere, from India to Peru, from the myths of Egypt to the traditional beliefs of America's Bible Belt. Controversial even before it was published in 1930, it remains what its author wished it to be: the plain, clear challenge of honest doubt.

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