Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
VoltaireEvery sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?
Voltaire