Hume

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    Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves in a little time, and leave the air more calm and serene than before.
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
    —David Hume (1711–1776)