Original sentence: " When faced with the possibility of a church with a "fervent congregation" opening in Morris, he stated that "the last thing we need is another parasitic institution that contributes nothing to the tax base and encourages further ignorance in the population" He characterizes "religious adherents" as "ignorant, deluded, wicked, foolish, or oppressed victims of obsolete mythologies
Edited sentence: " When faced with the possibility of a church with a particularly "fervent congregation" opening in Morris, he stated that "the last thing we need is another parasitic institution that contributes nothing to the tax base and encourages further ignorance in the population" He characterizes "religious adherents" as "ignorant, deluded, wicked, foolish, or oppressed victims of obsolete mythologies