"Each person has his religion and sect impressed upon him as a child, merely as a prejudice, through memorized formulas that are not understood and a drilled-in fear of damnation."

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DeistsPhilosophers from GermanyPeople from Hamburg
Original Language: English

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Fragments (from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Werke), as quoted and translated by Christine Lehleiter in Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016), p. 225