Clergymen Quotes (4 quotes)

“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. But Christian clergymen are well aware that if they were to attempt to purify Christianity and bring it back to the religion of Christ, the result would be to reform it out of existence. Christianity stands to-day completely explained. Every step in its development is laid bare and shown to be due to purely natural causes, and it is easy to see how much Christianity adopted from other and older religions.”
― Virchand Gandhi, The Monist

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“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“The religious issue was dragged out, and stirred up flames of hatred and intolerance. Clergymen, mobilizing their heaviest artillery of thunder and brimstone, threatened Christians with all manner of dire consequences if they should vote for the 'in fidel' from Virginia. This was particularly true in New England, where the clergy stood like Gibraltar against Jefferson.”
― Saul K. Padover, Jefferson: A Great American's Life and ideas

tags: brimstone, clergy, clergymen, gibraltar, hatred, infidel, intolerance, jefferson, thomas-jefferson

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“But no one can rid himself of the preaching clergyman. He is the bore of the age, the old man whom we Sinbads cannot shake off, the nightmare that disturbs our Sunday's rest, the incubus that overloads our religion and makes God's service distasteful.”
― Anthony Trollope

tags: clergymen, religion

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