Superstition

.—Come forward, ye reverend crew! and answer for your crimes! ye priests of Satan, it is you that have lighted up the torch of into­lerance; is is you that have erected the funeral pile of mar­tyrdom! It is you that have ordained religious massacres! you have strewed the fields with human carcases, and deluged them in blood; and yet you have done it all to the glory of God! False reli­gion, false morality, false reverence for idle cere­monies, and false worship, are all the children of the priesthood, and have been, are now, and I fear, ever will be adopted, by foolish and unre­flecting men!