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Los ^Angeles — Religions
view the psychology of America. Cultivated Americans deride her, but we must not forget that America's one hundred millions do not consist of cultivated persons — ninety-five millions or so belong to those ripe for the ministrations of Aimee and her like, and this ninety-five millions, who are steadily reducing life to the dreariest and most comfortable formula conceivable, have to take refuge in manifestations of this order. These are the ones with whom we have to reckon in considering the future effect of America on the world.
Yet when you have finished with the Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists, Foursquare Gospellers, Holy Rollers, Seventh-day Adventists, Christian Scientists, Salvationists, Jews, Theosophists, Voodooists, spiritualists, Moslems, Bak-ta-sheeists, exotic Indian sects, Buddhists, Taoists, Zoroastrians, and atheists, you have not finished with the ramifications of Los Angeles' religious aspect. The American religious impulse takes on other social aspects in which any free-thinking is a heresy suppressible by personal violence. The ancient saints' days of Catholic times have been replaced by equally sacred occasions : on such-andsuch a day you must honour your mother (if you do this religiously you may apparently forget her for the rest of the year) ; on another day you must honour your father (even though you and he may have quarrelled like two dogs and can't bear the sight of one another). On such a day you must put off your derby or fedora and don a straw hat ; on such another day you must take your straw hat off or it will be torn from your head and ground to pulp beneath the heels of the indignant populace. Birth-controllers and non-birth-controllers hate one another as viciously as the Huguenots and the Catholics ; companionate marriagers and non-companionate marriagers, as the Cavaliers and Roundheads ; alcoholists and anti-saloon leaguers, cigarette-smokers and chewing-gum fiends, modern writers and purity watch
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