“It is not Bradlaugh's atheism which they hate, but his unconscious Christianity.”

—  John Bright

Remark to his son, quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright (London: Constable, 1913), p. 428. Charles Bradlaugh had refused to swear an oath to God that was required of an elected candidate to the House of Commons before they could take their seat.
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British Radical and Liberal statesman 1811–1889

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