“[T]he very existence of competing worldviews constitutes a threat for any belief system that claims unique validity. …My point is that no belief system is immune from the dangers inherent to the human propensity to violent worldview-defence, as history from the Inquisition to the gulags sadly shows.”
Carlo Strenger, How the Enlightenment taught us to laugh, [...]
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