Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
An Untitled Lecture on Plato's Euthyphron (1996)
“Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.”
The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=Y4lHAAAAYAAJ&q="Piety+is+the+tin-foil+of+pretense"&pg=RA1-PA115#v=onepage (September 1908).
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