Not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

Not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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