![Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was an apologist for the divine right of kings.](/assets/img/quote-photos/since-the-early-days-the-church-has-thrown-itself-violently-against-every-effo.jpg)
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