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Religion is worth embracing if only because it saves more blood than fanaticism spills

Drawn from what Jean-Jacques Rousseau said

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religion Faith as a thing a society runs on, and what has been tried in its place.

What Jean-Jacques Rousseau actually said

  1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher and writer (1712 to 1778)
    If mankind had received no other advantages from religion, this alone would be sufficient to make them adopt and cherish it, since it is the means of saving more blood than fanaticism has been the cause of spilling.

    Where this was said

    ↗A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (1755; Harvard Classics translation)gutenberg.org

    c. 1754–1755

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