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Reigns of terror are the bastard child of the Enlightenment.

Terror in the name of utopian ideals would rise again and again
in coming centuries..
The Nazi death camps and the Soviet gulags were spawned
by the enlightenment.
Fascists and communists were bred on
visions of human perfectibility.

Tens of millions of people have been murdered in the futile
effort to reform human nature
and build utopian societies.

During these reigns of terror, science and reason served,
as they continue to serve-- interests purportedly devoted to
the common good--
and to vast mechanisms of repression and mass killing.

The belief in human perfectibility, in history
as a march towards a glorious culmination,
is a malformed theology.

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