I have one in my pocket here from the first century BCE by Lucretius, the author of "On the Nature of Things," who said, "Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum" — I should have been able to learn that by heart — which is, that's how much religion is able to persuade people to do evil, and he was talking about the fact of Agamemnon's decision to place his daughter Iphigenia on an altar of sacrifice in order to preserve the prospects of his army.
У меня в кармане книга Лукреция, автора « О природе вещей », трудившегося в 1-м веке до н.э. Он сказал: « Сколько зол могла внушить религия ». Хотелось бы мне заучить его наизусть, ведь оно о том, что религия может толкнуть людей на злодеяния.