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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

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This quote by H. L. Mencken suggests that theology is the attempt to understand and explain concepts that are beyond human comprehension using ideas that are of little significance or value.
Quote by H. L. Mencken
Writer, American
H. L. Mencken was an American writer, journalist, and cultural critic.
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