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Church Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep…
- The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.
- Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by…
- The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death;…
- We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the…
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