The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it. (Matilda Joslyn Gage)

The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

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