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There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. – Polly Toynbee

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Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. – Polly Toynbee

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Happiness
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Polly Toynbee
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But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. – Polly Toynbee

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Education
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Polly Toynbee
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Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified. – Polly Toynbee

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Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections. – Tony Campolo

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In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees. – Charles Eastman

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Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion. – Bill Condon

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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. – C.C. Colton

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