>Also, while Bloom wrote respectfully concerning religious piety,
>a careful reading of his text suggests that he was in fact an
>atheist, who considered the religious virtues to be distinctly
>inferior to the philosophical ones. But as a true Straussian,
>he of course endorsed the teaching of religion's noble lies
>to the masses.
Marx wrote in "Anti-Church Movement -- Demonstration in Hyde Park" (1855): "In the eighteenth century the French aristocracy said: For us, Voltaire; for the people, the mass and the tithes. In the nineteenth century the English aristocracy says: For us, pious phrases; for the people, Christian practice."
Yoshie