 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The immense majority of ministers of religion support war whenever it occurs, though in peace time they are often pacifists; in supporting war, they give emphatic utterance to their conviction that God is on their side, and lend religious support to the persecution of men who think wholesale slaughter unwise. While slavery existed, religious arguments were found in support of it; now-a-days, similar arguments are found in support of capitalistic exploitation. Almost all traditional cruelties and injustices have been supported by organised religion until the moral sense of the lay community compelled a change of front.
Source: Education and the Social Order, 1932
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