Following the slaughter of World War I, the Christian Church was under heavy scrutiny for their complicity in the war – with every bishop and cardinal serving as moral enablers in each of the combatant nations – failing utterly to bring an end to the violence. In their monthly collaboration, “Repition Generale”, George Jean Nathan (1882 – 1958) and H.L. Mencken (1880 – 1956) launched a broadside at the Christian Bishops for their elite, “bullet-proof” status in the world.
In 1900 people wanted to know why men didn’t like going to church…
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