Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?
VoltaireReligion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.
Voltaire