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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. – John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989

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There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said “Let us pray,” and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. – Desmond M. Tutu, “Religious Human Rights and the Bible”

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I think that we are at a point in our country where were trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena. – Nikki Haley

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Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a members freedom of thought and action. – Robert Shea

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There are three religious truths: 1)Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 2)Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. 3)Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters. – Author Unknown

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