 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The evils we have been considering seem inseparable from the existence of a professional priesthood. If religion is not to be harmful in a world of rapid change, it must, like the Society of Friends, be carried on by men who have other occupations during the week, who do their religious work from enthusiasm, without receiving any payment. And such men, because they know the everyday world, are not likely to fall into a remote morality which no one regards as applicable to common life.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Principles of Social Reconstruction, 1916, chapter 7: VII RELIGION AND THE CHURCHES, p.220
* The title of American edition: Why Men Fight?
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