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The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. – Charles Eastman

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There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy. – Charles Eastman

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Marriage
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Charles Eastman
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The first missionaries, good men imbued with the narrowness of their age, branded us as pagans and devil-worshipers, and demanded of us that we abjure our false gods before bowing the knee at their sacred altar. – Charles Eastman

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Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. – H.L. Mencken

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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. Theres nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch. – Larry Flynt

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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. – Jurgen Habermas

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