"Over the centuries, the innovative spirit of the church manifested itself in the search for life-giving thought with inquisitional methods, killing it, suffocating it in the smoke of bonfires, and today, through its delegates, it trumpeted itself as having a revolutionary spirit, with the accusation that its aim is to destroy freedom, education and democracy with barbarism and replace it with a mob dictatorship.
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Over the centuries, the innovative spirit of the church manifested itself in the search for life-giving thought with inquisitional methods, killing it, suffocating it in the smoke of bonfires, and today, through its delegates, it trumpeted itself as having a revolutionary spirit, with the accusation that its aim is to destroy freedom, education and democracy with barbarism and replace it with a mob dictatorship.
""Az egyház újító szelleme az évszázadok során abban nyilvánult, hogy az életadó gondolatot inkvizíciós módszerekkel kifürkéssze, megölje, máglyák füstjébe fojtsa, ma pedig küldöttei által forradalmi szelleműnek kürtölte ki magát, azzal a megokolással, hogy célja a szabadságot, a műveltséget és a demokráciát barbársággal és a csőcselék diktatúrájával helyettesíteni."