Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to a…

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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. ✨ William Hazlitt (2015). Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated), p.234, Delphi Classics
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. ✨ William Hazlitt (2015). Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated), p.234, Delphi Classics

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