I have one in my pocket here from the first century BCE by Lucretius, the author of "On the Nature of Things," who said, "Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum" -- I should have been able to learn that by heart — which is, that's how much religion is able to persuade people to do evil, and he was talking about the fact of Agamemnon's decision to place his daughter Iphigenia on an altar of sacrifice in order to preserve the prospects of his army.
Ich habe hier ein Zitat in der Hosentasche von Lukrez aus dem 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Er schrieb in seinem Werk  "Über die Natur der Dinge": "Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum" -- das hätte ich auswendig lernen können -- was bedeutet, so einfach ist es für die Religion, Menschen zu schlechten Taten zu bewegen. Dabei meinte er  Agamemnons Entscheidung, seine Tochter Iphigenie  auf einem Altar zu opfern, um damit die Chancen  seiner Armee zu steigern.