You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or even mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.


"The Emotional Factor" Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. - Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)

Bertrand Russell Quotes

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward...

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward...

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward...

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward...