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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."?

Do you agree with Voltaire?

Update:

I do by the way...

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    The Meadow Massacre is a good example of that.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes. Examples: Jim Jones / Jonestown massacre, 9/11 terrorists, Charles Manson, and

    white power radicals with their rantings against Jews, immigrants, homosexuals, and whoever else that didn't look like them.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Definitely.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes. Charles Manson's "Family" is a perfect example. Jim Jones' "People's Temple" is another.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Good people will do good things and bad people will do bad things, but it takes religion to make good people do bad things.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well, not MAKE you, per say, but close enough. 95%

  • Sam
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    True.

  • 1 decade ago

    no

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