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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. – William Robertson Smith

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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and ones religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. – David Herbert Lawrence

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I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with. – Gael Garcia Bernal

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