Quote by Andrew Greeley
Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories p

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. – Andrew Greeley

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I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. – Andrew Greeley

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An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody whos kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. – Andrew Greeley

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I have terrible handwriting. I now say its a learning disability… but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. – Andrew Greeley

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Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. – Edward Bond

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Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion. – Mary Douglas

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We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit. – William Robertson Smith

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. – George Bernard Shaw

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