Many are unware that the word idiot is derived from the ancient Greek idiotes, meaning that citizen who privatised his opinion because of lack of professional knowledge. As a matter of fact, privatising opinions was so abhored in antiquity that a very suitable place for intellectual discussion was the symposium.

This was a public and noisy drinking party that commenced with sacrifices to the gods followed by eating under the gaze of idols . It is during these symposiums that Socrates delivered his best political theory discourses. Therefore, those devout Catholics who, for the sake of Christian compassion or authenticity, want to ban the loud bangs from present day feasts ought to be aware where these idiotic opinions eventually lead to. For indeed the best way to kill religion is not by ridiculing its dogmas but by rendering it a pious private affair suitable only for idiots. Verily it was during a symposium that Plato had said that atheism is a disease of the soul!

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