By Casey Chalk, The Catholic Thing - [B]ased on what Mencken said about the liturgy, I think I can guess. In that same 1923 essay, he wrote: “A solemn high mass must be a thousand times as impressive, to a man with any genuine religious sense in him, as the most powerful sermon ever roared under the big-top by a Presbyterian auctioneer of God. In the face of such overwhelming beauty it is not necessary to belabor the faithful with logic; they are better convinced by letting them alone.”