“I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.”

— Halford E. Luccock

Described as his slogan in "Religion : Go Ye and Relax?" in TIME magazine (20 April 1953) http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,822783,00.html; this paraphrases the expression of Finley Peter Dunne, in Observations by Mr. Dooley (1902): Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

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