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What do Voltaire\'s examples of detestable fanaticism havein common? What is the remedy he suggests on p. 203? What doeshe dislike about the stories from the Old Testament to which healludes? What does he say is the basic problem with people whoappeal to a higher divine law when they behave violently? By theway, he is quite wrong in his description of Confucianism as beingfree from fanaticism; Buddhism comes closer. Although Confucianismis based on rational principles, Confucianists could be quitefanatical in their opposition to Buddhism.
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