[Photo of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk from ipb-magazine.com]
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) was the founder and first president of modern-day Turkey.
The following quote comes from the book, Ataturk, A Biography of Mustafa Kemal by Andrew Mango, p. 463 (courtesy of Robert Wolfe).
"I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow man."
Read more about Ataturk here.
h/t to Bob Poris
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