Superstition Unveiled

Hostility to state churches by no means implies a knowledge of the close and important connection between ecclesiastical and political questions. Men may appreciate the justice of voluntaryism in religion and yet have rather cloudy conceptions with respect to the influence of opinions and things ecclesiastical on the condition of nations. They may clearly see that he who needs the priest should disdain to saddle others with the cost of him while blind to the fact that no people having faith in the supernatural ever failed to mix up such faith with political affairs.