Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Considering These Limitations, It Is Quite Astonishing How Irreligious The Founders Actually Were. You Might Not Easily Guess, For Example, Who Was The Author Of The Following Words: Oh! Lord! Do You Think That A Protestant Popedom Is Annihilated In America? Do You Recollect, Or Have You Ever Attended To The Ecclesiastical Strifes In Maryland Pensilvania [sic], New York, And Every Part Of New England? What A Mercy It Is That These People Cannot Whip And Crop, And Pillory And Roast, As Yet In The U.S.! If They Could They Would ... . There Is A Germ Of Religion In Human Nature So Strong That Whenever An Order Of Men Can Persuade The People By Flattery Or Terror That They Have Salvation At Their Disposal, There Can Be No End To Fraud, Violence, Or Usurpation. That Was John Adams, In Relatively Mild Form.

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