“ he who has no religion at all is that terrible animal that feels its liberty only when it claws and devours.
It is not a question of knowing whether it would be better for a certain man or a certain people to be without religion than to abuse the one that they have, but of knowing which is the lesser evil, that one sometimes abuse religion or that there be none among men. ”
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation