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“Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.”

— Immanuel Kant

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Wikiquote: Immanuel Kant
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Context

A lecture at Königsberg (1775), as quoted in A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1946) by H. L. Mencken, p. 1017

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Kant, Immanuel. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Immanuel Kant. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

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