“Again and again our foe, religion, has given birth to deeds sinful and unholy.”

—  Lucretius

Book I, lines 82–83 (tr. C. Bailey)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)

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Saepius illa religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta.

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