"You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world.”
— Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
And since the Republicans have been taken over by conservative Christians, this quote basically explains everything they’re trying to do as well.
"You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world.”
— Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
And since the Republicans have been taken over by conservative Christians, this quote basically explains everything they’re trying to do as well.