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“It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.”

Men Should Seems Law Church Doors Fairs Catholic Priests Mosques Roman Catholic

Author:Trevor Phillips

“Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!”

World Mind Body Turns Church Study Materials Fairs Analysis Halls Leisure Examination Material World

Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.”

America Sound Church Issues Fairs Clock Sunday Usual Pretext Steeples Medley

Book:A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

“The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of civilization. It has struggled to the last ditch, by fair means and foul, to preserve as long as it could the vestiges of ancient and medieval theology, with all the puerile moralities and harsh customs and medieval styles of belief.”

“Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?”

Should Church Answers Pay Taxes Fairs Atheist Despise Exemption

Author:E. Haldeman-Julius

“Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church.”

Ifs Ideas Speak Church Fairs Dinner Hotel Leipzig

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel