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The Closing Of The Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman.
An exploration of a key turning point in Western Civilization - the alliance of church and state in the aftermath of the Roman emperor Constatine's conversion to Christianity in the fourth century CE which set the stage for the triumph of faith over reason.
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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