When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not abl…

Benjamin Franklin
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When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.
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