In innumerable placespriestcraft caused the public burning of the books.
Priestcraft of the larger division of Christendom was to be under attack for 390 years, during which time the besieging element, the reformers, were to be protected from Papacy by the "iron wall" of the civil powers.
The devotees of established priestcraft fear both the literal sword and the Sword of the Spirit.
Upon the reform element was laid the burden of seeing the dupes of Papal priestcraft continually learning and living error.
And is there no priestcraft in the Church of England?
Where force, and rage, and priestcraft fail, To pilfer power away?
What "Common Sense" had done to kingcraft in America the "Age of Reason" promised to do to priestcraft throughout the world.
He had resolved to strike a blow at priestcraft before he died.
His pen had given kingcraft a mortal hurt; priestcraft must be destroyed.
Paine's opposition to priestcraft was too pronounced and too well known to claim him as an adherent of their faith, and so they have sought to destroy his influence by destroying his good name.
The National Schools must, in the long run, be fatal to political priestcraft and traitorous agitation.
Shall we truckle to Rome, shall we become slaves to Popish knaves, shall we become subservient to priestcraft and lying and roguery and trickery?
The trammels of statecraft and priestcraft had been suddenly removed from religion, and men were left to form their own opinions as to rites and ceremonies.
It was not, therefore, until reason had been suspended in all matters pertaining to religion, and blind faith in the machinations of priestcraft had been established, that a male God was set up as the sole Creator of the universe.
The notion that religion was an invention of interested priestcraft has vanished, like many other eighteenth century fictions, before nineteenth century science.
Even in the savage races, where priestcraft is most conspicuous, the priest has never created the religion, but always the religion the priest.
In a foreign land, brooding over his wrongs, he cherished the bitter antipathy to priestcraft and to monarchy which finds such terrific expression in his poems.
I spoke freely to many against their priestcraft and errors; showed them the true mode of baptism, etc.
Thou hast grappled with sages in error rife, Thou hast taught to the erring the way of life; With flaming words and a burning pen Thou hast bearded gaunt priestcraft in his den, And said Baal's grizzly priests, avaunt!
Certainly they merit better treatment than is accorded them by those who crudely brand them all alike, in all their doctrines and legends and ritual, as the mere inventions of priestcraft fostered by kingcraft and statecraft.
And mark this; the Grecian mythology is dead, is no longer aggressive in its absurdities; the priestcraft and the foul rites have long since perished, the beauty and the grace and the splendor remain.
I have broken through the trammels of Priestcraft publicly, I bid defiance to all the persecution it can inflict upon me, and I now call upon the Men of Science in this island to stand forward and support me.
I am not aware that any one of them has ever made himself the public advocate of truth, of scientific philosophical truth, in opposition to the false and stupifying dogmas of Priestcraft or Holy Books.
It is therefore of the utmost importance that we begin right, that all the ideas of our infancy and youth be founded in Nature, and that the poisonous effusions of Priestcraft be carefully weeded, and kept from our minds.
The many unnatural distinctions which Kingcraft and Priestcraft have brought into society, have totally undermined the first object of the social state.
And then he took off the cloak ofpriestcraft and cast it to the floor.
The blood-red cloak of priestcraft will never again touch my shoulders this side of the Reward.
I shall give two instances of predictions which came under my own observation, and which will show how much the same priestcraft has been in all times.
Most of them spoke of priestcraft and the monks with the utmost abhorrence, and said that they should prefer death to again submitting to the yoke which had formerly galled their necks.
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