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Quote by Flora Lewis
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for t

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isnt alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. – Flora Lewis

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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. – Flora Lewis

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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. – Jonathan Swift

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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. – George Santayana, Reason in Religion

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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. – Edgar Allen Poe

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In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion. – Carol P. Christ

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