Quid? qui sanguine suo libat et vulneribus suis supplicat, non profanus melius esset quam sic religiosus? aut cui testa sunt obscena demessa, quo modo deum violat qui hoc modo placat, cum si eunuchos deus vellet, posset procreare, non facere? Quis non intellegat male sanos et vanae et perditae mentis in ista desipere et ipsam errantium turbam mutua sibi patrocinia praestare? Hic defensio communis furoris est furentium multitudo.
Or take the man who pours libations of his own blood, and from his own wounds draws supplication'would he not be better without religion than religious in this fashion? and propitiatory self-mutilation'is it not an insult to God? if God wanted eunuchs, could he not produce, not make them? These, anyone can see, are the aberrations, follies 10 and excesses of a disordered mind, and the mere number of those who go wrong supplies mutual securities. General insanity shields itself behind the multitude of the insane.
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