Religion
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Just as the churches have lost their belief in eternal fire, they have lost their influence, and the reason they have lost their belief is on account of the diffusion of knowledge.


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As man becomes civilized he becomes merciful, and the time came when civilized Presbyterians and Congregationalists read their own creeds with horror.


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The prejudice of race and religion is growing feebler, and everywhere, to a greater extent than ever before, the light is welcome.


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If you want schools, demolish the Church, or just close it, or at the least reduce it to an inferior position.


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Yes, yes, that is good, to read, write and to know numbers. But don't teach them the Word of God; it is not nice... We know quite enough about God and dying.


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I have been called a "secular scholar" at various times by certain people, and sometimes I've been staked, stoned, and burned for it.


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The heads of the church have wisely discovered that reason and inconsistency cannot long exist together; that the one must inevitably destroy the other, and reign paramount. They have witnessed the regular, and latterly the rapid progress which reason has made; they know that its accumulating strength cannot be much longer resisted.


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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.


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...understanding was held a prisoner under the dominion of the Christian dogmas...


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     Religion -- Added : April 12, 2020

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