Tuesday, July 16, 2024


JAMES MADISON
Fourth US President
Signer of US Constitution and known as "Father of the Constitution"

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; in many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient allies.

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.



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