“It is remarkable to see how quickly the men who had got rid of the Christian God began to create fictitious deities for themselves out of abstract nouns and concepts like the state.”
Herbert Butterfield, Christianity In Modern Europe 1952
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Posted by M. C. on April 10, 2023
“It is remarkable to see how quickly the men who had got rid of the Christian God began to create fictitious deities for themselves out of abstract nouns and concepts like the state.”
Herbert Butterfield, Christianity In Modern Europe 1952
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