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Thanks for the suggestions. I just Bertrand Russell's piece now, and it was good. I'm not sure if this part is accurate but it is scathing:

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You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

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yeah he's vicious; a little hyperbole here and there but he does a pretty good job of backing those kind of claims up.