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Atheists & Agnostics

Duppers

(28,246 posts) Wed Oct 25, 2017, 12:43 AM Oct 2017

Thought for the day

"The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this:
I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me, for it is your duty to tolerate truth; but when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you, for it is my duty to persecute error."

- Thomas Babington Macaulay, poet, historian, politician (1800-1859)