Quote#God & Faith
Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous…
Quote byHenry Stephens Salt · 1851–1939
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Seventy Years Among Savages (1921)..
English (original)
Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the barbarity with which man has treated man; and the deep division imagined by the Church between the human being, with his immortal soul, and the soulless "beasts", has been responsible for an incalculable sum of cruelty.
— Henry Stephens Salt
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