...nothing better demonstrates the real corruption that had infected the Catholic Church than the character of the Reformation itself, the shocking personalities of its leaders, the worldliness of their passions, and the fundamental blindness of their theologies. And yet, when once these monsters had established their various forms of religion, the people who were told that their religion had not been changed, but only purified, and were given the Bible to read for themselves, did not cease, when the spirit was in them, to draw from it for themselves, under the spell of obscure phrases and hallowed precepts, various types of sincere devotion.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who do not understand it.
George Santayana, The Birth of Reason and Other Essays (1968), 98.
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