Mencken on religion

A while back I decided to actually read HL Mencken, rather than just browse through publications of his pithy points. 

St. Laurentius Kirche - Ahrweiler

For example, in H.L. Mencken on Religion, this short bit of wisdom:

The common view of science is that it is a sort of machine for increasing the race’s store of dependable facts. It is that only in part; in even larger part it is a machine for upsetting undependable facts.

Very good. But let's focus the the really relevant part:

...science... is a machine for upsetting undependable facts.

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