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Frederick II

Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.

Religion

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Frederick II is saying that religion is like a false god created by the masses, who worship it because they lack understanding. People tend to admire and follow religious ideas simply because those ideas are mysterious or beyond their comprehension.

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