If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of…

Salman Rushdie
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. ✨ Terror Is Glamour. Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.
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