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It is not necessary to have a broad understanding of history to realize that the church is the foe of knowledge. One realizes this intellectual obscurantism and tyranny of the church more vividly when one sees it against the background of dramatic centuries.
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...superstition is favorable to priestly power...
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Under their [religious] teachings men waste and misdirect their energies, abandon the ends that can be accomplished, dedicate their lives to the impossible, worship the unknown, pray to the inconceivable, and become the trembling slaves of a monstrous myth born of ignorance and fashioned by the trembling hands of fear.
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...the man who bows before an idol of wood or stone is just as foolish as the one who prays to an imagined God, -- that all worship has for its foundation the same mistake -- the same ignorance, the same fear -- that it is just as foolish to believe in a personal god as in a personal devil -- just as foolish to believe in great ghosts as little ones.
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...your parsons, parents, and good men...the true seducers and corrupters of youth, who busily sow broadcast the tares of self-contempt and reverence to God, who fill young hearts with mud and young heads with stupidity.
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...the Christians made progress among the people by a device that invariably seduces ignorant folk.
Chronology :
April 13, 2020 : Ignorance -- Added.
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