Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death ...

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~

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