Erasmus--Praise of Folly

(The Stoic) ...strips his wise man of every emotion. In doing so he leaves nothing at all of the man, and has to fabricate in his place a new sort of god who never was and never will be in existence anywhere. Indeed, if I may be frank, what he created was a kind of marble statue of a man, devoid of sense and any sort of human feeling."

Erasmus has some great and funny satire against Romanism and Scholasticism on pp's 152-165 of his Praise of Folly that would not have its effect here because I would have to write so much of it down for context. Go and check it out, you won't be disappointed..