On religious intolerance

On religious intolerance February 24, 2017

 

A portrait of M. Montesquieu
The French philosopher Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
This portrait, done in 1728, hangs in the Palace of Versailles.  (Wikimedia Commons public domain)

 

“Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance . . .  the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.”

Montesquieu (1689-1755)

 

 


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