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Formidable Atheist Quotes - AskAtheists.com
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RE: Formidable Atheist Quotes - AskAtheists.com
Seneca never said that.

It was Edward Gibbon in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

http://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/volume1/chap2.htm

Quote:The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.

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Formidable Atheist Quotes - AskAtheists.com - by chrisbeach - January 24, 2013 at 7:41 pm
RE: Formidable Atheist Quotes - AskAtheists.com - by Minimalist - January 24, 2013 at 7:47 pm

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