European Countries

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“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshiped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)