I mean this. – Why should we not see in all the positive religionssimply the process whereby the human understanding in all places canalone develop, and will develop further still, instead of reacting with eithermockery or anger to one of them? If nothing in the best of worlds deservesthis scorn, this indignation on our part, why should the religions alonedeserve it? Can God’s hand be at work in everything except in our errors?
-Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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