Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French editor, philosopher
“Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws,” Letter to Catherine the Great (1774)

 
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