Christianity must be divine since it has lasted 1,700 years despite the fact that it is so full of villainy and nonsense." [Voltaire] shows how almost all ancient peoples had similar myths, and hastily concludes that the myths are thereby proved to have been the inventions of priests: "the first divine was the first rogue who met the first fool.
-Will Durant
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