Quotes About Priestcraft

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

To say that religion and priestcraft have played a conservative role in history is an understatement. One might as well say that bubonic plague has killed a few people, or that Hitler was a little bit strange. The chief role of religion has always been reactionary. This is its evolutionary function, in the dialectic of the circuitry of the brain.

The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

O Godhead of glory and anguish! O Christ shone through Magdalen's tears! Thy sons on the universe languish In iron bands strong as the spheres; With virtue Thy likeness we cover, With priestcraft we mock at Thy power, And the meanest on earth is a lover, As vile as a flower.

In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin,Before polygamy was made a sin.

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.