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“No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.”

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Book:Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide

Source: Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide

“How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.”

Has Beens Certain Church Office Filled University Ill Connected Appropriate Portions Clergymen Professorship

Book:The Exposition of 1851, Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England

Source: The Exposition of 1851, Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England

“Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.”

Men Stills Church Ill

Book:The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

“The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.”

Church Atheism Forgotten Ill Positive Atheism Choir Church Choir

Book:Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The NewSouth Edition

Source: Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The NewSouth Edition

“For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most vulnerable or suggestible. If they can't get them in school, then they get them when they are hungry, or frightened, or ill, or homeless, or unemployed. Same difference. Here's your gruel, and here's a tract.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.”

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Author:Matthew Fox