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In G.Minois. L'Histoire de l'athéisme. Fayard. (1998), p.53 I saw something which surprised me: Plato invented the concentration camp. It was invented for the atheists. The “simple” atheists should be submitted to a constant brainwashing in a complete isolation for at least 5 years. In case they are not cured after this period and if he is an important atheist the punishment must be death. In the second case, the atheists who debauch should be placed in a concentration camp, and when they eventually die, the corpse thrown out, no one is allowed to bury it. It is also the case with all those who do not acknowledge the state religion, i.e. magicians and all those who aim at changing the occult and divine powers. The reference is to Platon, Les Lois, X, p. 909. It seems that Plato is the father of religious intolerance.