Religion Is So Frequently A Source Of

I Think There Ought To Be A Club In Which Preachers And Journalists Could Come Together And Have The Sentimentalism Of The One Matched With The Cynicism Of The Other. That Ought To Bring Them Pretty Close To The Truth.

There Is No Social Evil, No Form Of Injustice Whether Of The Feudal Or The Capitalist Order Which Has Not Been Sanctified In Some Way Or Other By Religious Sentiment And Thereby Rendered More Impervious To Change.

Our Age Knows Nothing But Reaction, And Leaps From One Extreme To Another.

History Is A Realm In Which Human Freedom And Natural Necessity Are Curiously Intermingled.

In The 17th And 18th Centuries There Was A Kind Of Protestantism That Said, "if You Could Only Get Rid Of The Bishop, Then You'd Be A True Christian".