A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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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.
