The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, and the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains

Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men

That church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves;

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.