anti-state

Updated: September 27, 2025

At a recent meeting of the Anti-State Church Association it was remarked, that 'throw what we would into the political cauldron, out it came in an ecclesiastical shape'. If the newspaper report may be relied on, there was much laughing among the hearers of those words, the deep meaning of which it may safely be affirmed, only a select few of them could fathom.

Charles Southwell - An Apology for Atheism: Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination: by One of Its Apostles