Bertrand Russell quote: I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal ...

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

~ Bertrand Russell ~

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