 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1970 - 1156 pages
...centuries, has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the...laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution. Enquire of the Teachers of Christianity for the ages in which it appeared in its greatest lustre; those... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Finance, Public - 1972 - 890 pages
...centuries, has the legal establishment of Christianity been a trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the...clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity ; in both superstitution, bigotry, and persecution. Inquire of the teachers of Christianity for the ages in which... | |
 | United States. Congress. House Ways and Means - 1972 - 280 pages
...centuries, has the legal establishment of Christianity been a trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the...clergy ; ignorance and servility in the laity ; in both superstitution, bigotry, and persecution. Inquire of the teachers of Christianity for the ages in which... | |
 | Richard C. McMillan - Religion in the public schools - 1984 - 326 pages
...centuries, has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the...laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution. . . . What influence in fact have ecclesiastical establishments had on Civil Society? In some instances... | |
 | Morton White - Philosophy - 1989 - 286 pages
...centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the...laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution" (Papers of James Madison, Volume 8, p. 301). Compare this with Hume's statement "that, in all ages... | |
 | Martin E. Marty - Religion - 1987 - 358 pages
...centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? . . . Pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstitions, bigotry, and persecution. Establishments have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson, Robert C. Vaughan - History - 1988 - 392 pages
...centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the...servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.27 The objective of comments like these is to turn the tables on the proponents of established... | |
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During almost fifteen centuries, has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits ? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy ; ignorance and servility in the laity ; in both, superstition, bigotry... 
