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Fanaticism is far deadlier than atheism, because it drives people to commit crimes
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- Voltaire French writer and public activist (1694 to 1778)
Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion, whereas fanaticism does: atheism is not opposed to crime, but fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.
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↗Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (English selection, H. I. Woolf translation, 1924)gutenberg.org
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