• NABDad@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

    • Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Richard Price.