The man who is unable to laugh at his god is a man who does not quite believe in his god. In the Middle Ages, when Christians were really Christians, the burlesque mass flourished, and even bishops took part in it. Today, with not enough faith left in Christendom to make a single martyr, a burlesque mass would end in a lynching — and Jews and Protestants would help pull the rope.

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]

“Pertinent and Impertinent,” Smart Set (Jun 1913) [as Owen Hatteras]
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