"The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit."

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One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.

— Joseph Addison