"The clergy earns its living from religion. If……" — Abdolkarim Soroush

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• It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,… — Jane Austen
• I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived,… — Adolf Hitler
• The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to… — Thomas Jefferson
• The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy]. — Thomas Jefferson
• The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable… — Thomas Jefferson
• That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their… — James Madison
• The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into… — Thomas Jefferson
• The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy. — George Washington
• There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only… — Albert Einstein
• The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the… — Thomas Jefferson
• By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men. — Unknown Author
• The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They… — Leo Tolstoy

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