What will the preachers say ... to teach men not to persecute men for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike. (Voltaire)

What will the preachers say ... to teach men not to persecute men for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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