No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magi…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
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