Bakunin - God and the State: if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. 
 Mijail Bakunin God being everything, the real world and man are nothing. God being truth, justice, goodness, beauty, power, and life, man is falsehood, iniquity, evil, ugliness, impotence, and death. God being master, man is the slave. Incapable of finding justice, truth, and eternal life by his own effort, he can attain them only through a divine revelation. But whoever says revelation says revealers. . . . and these, once recognized as the representatives of divinity on earth . . . necessarily exercise absolute power. All men owe them passive and unlimited obedience; for against the divine reason . . . no terrestrial justice holds. Slaves of God, men must also be slaves of Church and State, in so far as the State is consecrated by the Church. This truth Christianity, better than all other religions . . . understood. . . . That is why Christianity is the absolute religion . . . the Roman church is the only consistent, legitimate, and divine church.
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