BTW, I would probably prefer it said "Journalist -Theologian - Tobacco Heretic". "Scholar" implies a University background, or at least scholarly publications with footnotes.
I don't know if GK ever in his life bedecked his writings with footnotes --- more like bits of cigar ash and brandy spots --- and he was a college drop-out.
As so many of the good 'uns were and are.
One of the many amazing things about GK is that he WAS a journalist. Most of his writings appeared in newspapers --- something to read today and line your parakeet cage with tomorrow ----hastily written, to be hastily read--- in other words, ephemeral literature. And yet you can still read his stuff 100 years later and say "Here's a guy who 'gets' what's happenin' now."
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