On the record
We are very religious as a people, so far as religion is convenient, and consistent with money-getting, office, and power; but so far as it interferes with those pursuits, we are a nation of infidels.
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “We are very religious as a people, so far as religion is convenient, and consistent with money-getting, office, and…”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner critiques the hypocrisy of American religiosity when it conflicts with material pursuits.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Other voices in this conversation
