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Quote by Barbara Kingsolver
I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump res

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. Its a relief to accept that not everything is under your control. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Ive always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. Its the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone elses pain is as meaningful as your own. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. – Michael Shermer

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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. – Sojourner Truth

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Some people would have us love, or rather obey God, chiefly because he outbids the devil. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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