“ Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years. ”
- John Spong- Copy
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“ One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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“ It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ Old England liberty — to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress. ”
- Captain J. G. Stedman- Copy
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“ And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you. ”
- Benjamin Jowett- Copy
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“ The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
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