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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally – certainly with my secular background – the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. – Yann Martel

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I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. – Yann Martel

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Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. Its something I really like. I like movies. – Yann Martel

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movies
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. – Yann Martel

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Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. – Morris Raphael Cohen

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Im very interested in religion as something to study, but Im not a religious person in the slightest. – Daniel Radcliffe

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Such religion is Churchianity; it is not Christianity. Christianity means the religion where Christ is all; Churchianity, the religion where the Church is all. – John Cumming, “Salvation,” sermon preached before the Queen, 1850 September 22nd

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For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God. – Lactantius

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