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Coulton said of the Inquisition, “History affords few plainer examples of the demoralizing effects of absolute power upon fairly ordinary men.” Vetter states that in both Islam and Christendom the naïve believers have over long periods been taught that it was their duty to slaughter the unbeliever, or whoever refused to accept their particular version of divine guidance.

-- Walker, Barbara G., The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, HarperCollins, San Francisco, 1983. Page 447-448.