General Garibaldi said this about his religious beliefs.

As may be supposed, the priests attacked the General, and accused him far and wide of being an
atheist. This false and foolish charge led to his delivering the following address before twenty
thousand people at Padua:

"It is in vain that my enemies try to make me out an atheist. I believe in God. I am of the religion
of Christ, not of the religion of the Popes. I do not admit any intermediary between God and
man. Priests have merely trust themselves in, in order to make a trade of religion. They are the
enemies of true religion, liberty, and progress; they are the original cause of our slavery and
degradation, and in order to subjugate the souls of Italians, they have called in foreigners to
enchain our bodies. The foreigners we have expelled, now we must expel those mitered and
tonsured traitors who summoned them. The people must be taught that it is not enough to have
a free country, but that they must learn to exercise the rights and perform the duties of free
men. Duty! duty! that is the word. Our people must learn their duties to their families, their
duties to their country, their duty to humanity"

Garibaldi proceeded next to the University of Padua; and there, standing before the statue of
Galileo, he uncovered his head, saying,

"Who, remembering Galileo, his genius and his life, the torture inflicted upon him, the
martyrdom he suffered-he, I say, who, remembering this, does not despise the priests of Rome,
is not worthy to be called a man or an Italian"

General Garibaldi: The Rule of the Monk; or Rome in the 19th Century, London, 1870, Vol. II, p.91

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