"I have often been amazed to find that people who are proud to profess the Christian religion, that is [a religion of} love, joy, peace, moderation and good will to all men, opposing each other with extraordinary animosity and giving daily expression to the bitterest mutual hatred. So much so that it has become easier to recognize an individual's faith by the latter features than the former."
"Unsurprisingly, then, nothing remains of the religion of the early church except its external ritual (by which the common people seem to adulate rather than venerate God), and faith amounts to nothing more than credulity and prejudices."
~ Benedict Spinoza, "Preface", Theological-Political Treatise (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 7.
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