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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Baron de Montesquieu
Religious, War, Religion

[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.

Baron de Montesquieu
Kings, Believe, Religion
"Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 24, 1721.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

Baron de Montesquieu
Thinking, Religion, Gods Will
"Lettres Persanes" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 35, 1721.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Baron de Montesquieu
People, Religion, Arguing

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