AN APOLOGY FOR ATHEISM
It would be absurd to doubt that religion has an important bearing on all the relations and conditions of life. The connexion between religions faith and political practice is, in truth, far closer than is generally thought. Public opinion has not ripened into a knowledge that religious error is the intangible but real substratum of all political injustice. Though the 'schoolmaster' has done much, there still remain and hold some sway among us, many honest and energetic assertors of 'the rights of man,' who have to learn that a people in the fetters of superstition, can never achieve political freedom. Many of these reformers admit the vast, the incalculable influence of Mahommedanism on the politics of Constantinople, and yet persist in acting as if Christianity had little or nothing to do with the politics of England.
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I didnβt write that, but it could have been written today. It was written by Charles Southwell from London in god damn 1846.
These chumps benefit from the status quo and our ignorance. Letβs chuck them aside. We need to mob up on it with fervor, like itβs one of Cogswellβs fountains