![[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.](/assets/img/quote-photos/on-christianity-its-lip-service-and-its-empty-rites-have-made-it-the-easiest-o.jpg)
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