"Charles II, himself a crypto-Catholic libertine, was reputedly appalled by James's folly in matters of religion and sex: 'My brother will lose his kingdom by his bigotry, and his soul for a lot of ugly trollops.'" John Mullan
To paraphrase Wittgenstein: If someone tells me that he is an atheist, I can respectfully disagree with that. If someone tells me that it is his deep commitment to Enlightenment rationality that made him an atheist, then I know he is a fraud.
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