Meslier

,

Jean

1664-1729

,
Freethinker

If religion was clear, it would have fewer attractions for the ignorant.  They need obscurity, mysteries, fables, miracles, incredible things, which keep their brains perpetually at work.

Common Sense (12), p. 15, (posthumously discovered 1732), or written by D’Holbach, Good Sense (2), p. 22, – love of the mysterious and miraculous

– love of the mysterious and miraculous

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