‘Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known’
Deuteronomy Ch. 13, verse 13
‘Carrier came down to the Loire and slew, Till all the ways and the waves were red: Bound and drowned, slaying two by two, Maidens and young men, naked and wed’
Swinburne, Les Noyades
‘People no longer believe in God. The new religion is nationalism. Nations no longer go to church. They go to national associations’
Joseph Roth, The Radetzsky March (1932)