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“Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is taught that animals have no rights that we are bound to respect, and were only made for man, to be petted, spoiled, slaughtered or enslaved.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.”

People Long Whole Moments Government Jobs Spiritual Church Moral Bounds Permanent Decency Solace Spiritual Leadership

Author:James A. Michener

“The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.”

Humans Facts Might Found Church Divine Catholic Institutions Bounds Proof Divinity Catholic Church Unbelievers Imbecility Fortnight

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.”

World Helping Individual Church Destiny Responsible Bounds Sanctify

Book:The Religions of Man

Source: The Religions of Man

“Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.”

Stills Happens Imagination Church Building Resources Bounds Tricks Sunday

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“Through the confessional system the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.”

People Speak Understanding Church Mass Catholic Bounds Latin Catholic Church Excluded

Author:Julian Assange

“The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of the ecclesiastical unity, especially obstinate heretics and heresiarchs, cannot be restrained by any other penalty from continuing to derange the ecclesiastical order and impelling others to all sorts of crime ... When the perversity of one or several is calculated to bring about the ruin of many of its children it is bound effectively to remove it, in such wise that if there be no other remedy for saving its people it can and must put these wicked men to death.”