Immanuel Kant: Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. — Immanuel Kant

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

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