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title: "Timeless Religion Proverbs"
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> [“She speaks to our condition. Is the atom a small thing? And yet what havoc it has wrought. Is her little way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-carroll-campbell/she-speaks-to-our-condition-is-the-atom-a-small-thing-and-yet-what/)

[Colleen Carroll Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-carroll-campbell/)

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> [“What is the Absolute? Absolute can only be the absolute knowledge, thought, mind, immaterial “substance,” the absolute “brain” (spirit) that contains an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dejan-stojanovic/what-is-the-absolute-absolute-can-only-be-the-absolute-knowledge/)

[Dejan Stojanovic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dejan-stojanovic/)

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> [Oh, my soul! why art thou so often disquieted within thee? How is it that thou hast so little faith? Wilt thou…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-l-cuyler/oh-my-soul-why-art-thou-so-often-disquieted-within-thee-how-is-it/)

[Theodore L. Cuyler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-l-cuyler/)

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> [The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bradlaugh/the-atheist-does-not-say-there-is-no-god-but-he-says-i-know-not-what/)

[Charles Bradlaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bradlaugh/)

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> [“Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greta-christina/religion-by-its-very-nature-as-an-untestable-belief-in-undetectable/)

[Greta Christina](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greta-christina/)

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> [“↑ top Loading-trans up up Loading-transup Loading position down down Loading-transdown ↓ bottom Loading-trans Remove this quote from your collection “There are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-f-tholuck/top-loading-trans-up-up-loading-transup-loading-position-down-down/)

[Augustus F. Tholuck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-f-tholuck/)

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> [Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evelyn-underhill/much-is-now-being-said-about-evangelism-but-before-we-get-effective/)

[Evelyn Underhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evelyn-underhill/)

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> [“But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/but-with-respect-to-religion-itself-without-regard-to-names-and-as/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-brin/where-were-answers-to-the-truly-deep-questions-religion-promised/)

[David Brin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-brin/)

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> [“Getting a new version of the answer every day, Artyom was unable to compel himself to believe what was true, because the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitry-glukhovsky/getting-a-new-version-of-the-answer-every-day-artyom-was-unable-to/)

[Dmitry Glukhovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitry-glukhovsky/)

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> [... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-wright/the-yearly-expenses-of-the-existing-religious-systemexceed-in-these/)

[Frances Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-wright/)

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> [“Sometimes in church circles, we talk more about contentment (which is a good thing) but it can minimize the importance of ambition—that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-mcculley/sometimes-in-church-circles-we-talk-more-about-contentment-which-is-a/)

[Carolyn McCulley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-mcculley/)

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> [As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-robinson/as-elders-we-have-great-respect-for-all-religions-and-traditions-as/)

[Mary Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-robinson/)

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> [The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-cohen/the-psychologists-are-valiantly-trying-to-provide-us-with-answers-the/)

[Leonard Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-cohen/)

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> [“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-would-give-the-greatest-sunset-in-the-world-for-one-sight-of-new-2/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-charles-swinburne/the-highest-spiritual-quality-the-noblest-property-of-mind-a-man-can/)

[Algernon Charles Swinburne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-charles-swinburne/)

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> [The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sun-ra/the-music-is-not-part-of-this-planet-in-a-sense-that-the-spirit-of-it/)

[Sun Ra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sun-ra/)

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> [One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/one-of-the-greatest-foes-of-the-christian-is-religious-complacency/)

[Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aiden-wilson-tozer/)

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> [“to the world. God created both body and soul, and the resurrection of Jesus shows that he is going to redeem both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/to-the-world-god-created-both-body-and-soul-and-the-resurrection-of/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [ “\[...\] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/i-grew-up-out-of-that-strange-dreamy-childhood-of-mine-and-went-into/)

[L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/)

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> [During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/during-the-youthful-period-of-mankind-s-spiritual-evolution-human/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“Yes, we need scholars and academics, leaders and ministers. And we need people like me—low-church, untrained laity who are a bit sloppy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bessey/yes-we-need-scholars-and-academics-leaders-and-ministers-and-we-need/)

[Sarah Bessey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bessey/)

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> [“The fourth and final dimension of religious freedom in full is the right—both individually and as part of a larger religious community—to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-shah/the-fourth-and-final-dimension-of-religious-freedom-in-full-is-the/)

[Timothy Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-shah/)

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> [“To sum it up, from this point of view, the two religions of mankind tend to be the peakers and the non-peakers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-h-maslow/to-sum-it-up-from-this-point-of-view-the-two-religions-of-mankind/)

[Abraham H. Maslow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-h-maslow/)

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> [“What you find in the Bible are stories accurately reflecting the dominant consciousness of the day, and yet right in among and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-bell/what-you-find-in-the-bible-are-stories-accurately-reflecting-the/)

[Rob Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-bell/)

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> [You are not the sum of your physical, mental, emotional life, but you are designed for the spiritual. The whole design of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nirmala-srivastava/you-are-not-the-sum-of-your-physical-mental-emotional-life-but-you/)

[Nirmala Srivastava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nirmala-srivastava/)

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> [“The Spirit of God uses the Word of God to work in our lives. Read Colossians 3:16—4:1 and you will see a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-w-wiersbe/the-spirit-of-god-uses-the-word-of-god-to-work-in-our-lives-read/)

[Warren W. Wiersbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-w-wiersbe/)

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> [“Whether Jewish or Christian, our religions have stressed too strongly the strictly historical aspect, so that we are, so to say, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/whether-jewish-or-christian-our-religions-have-stressed-too-strongly/)

[Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/)

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> [“Incompatible religious doctrines have balkanized our world into separate moral communities, and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed. Indeed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/incompatible-religious-doctrines-have-balkanized-our-world-into/)

[Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-harris/)

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> [Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-graves/hardly-one-soldier-in-a-hundred-was-inspired-by-religious-feeling-of/)

[Robert Graves](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-graves/)

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> [“...if I do not take my intellectual vocation seriously, putting it before everything else even at the risk of appearing inhuman, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raimundo-panikkar/if-i-do-not-take-my-intellectual-vocation-seriously-putting-it-before/)

[Raimundo Panikkar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raimundo-panikkar/)

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> [“once God rescues sinners, his plan is not to steer them beyond the gospel but to move them more deeply into it—that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scotty-smith/once-god-rescues-sinners-his-plan-is-not-to-steer-them-beyond-the/)

[Scotty Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scotty-smith/)

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> [Today one might be tempted to say that patriotism is the last refuge of the tribal religion dedicated to the worship of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-alexander-leighton/today-one-might-be-tempted-to-say-that-patriotism-is-the-last-refuge/)

[Joseph Alexander Leighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-alexander-leighton/)

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> [“There are those who talk of the evil spirit of the woods. But for me there is only one evil spirit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-e-bates/there-are-those-who-talk-of-the-evil-spirit-of-the-woods-but-for-me/)

[H.E. Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-e-bates/)

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> [In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-naisbitt/in-turbulent-times-in-times-of-great-change-people-head-for-the-two/)

[John Naisbitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-naisbitt/)

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> [I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-whyte/i-love-the-best-of-all-the-traditions-my-discipline-is-the-take-no/)

[David Whyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-whyte/)

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> [No matter where the skeptical thought originates, or how it gets access to our minds, we see at once that it flattens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-salter-storrs/no-matter-where-the-skeptical-thought-originates-or-how-it-gets/)

[Richard Salter Storrs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-salter-storrs/)

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> [“Shepherd Book: What are we up to, sweetheart? River: Fixing your Bible. Book: I, um... What? River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-edlund/shepherd-book-what-are-we-up-to-sweetheart-river-fixing-your-bible/)

[Ben Edlund](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-edlund/)

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> [Depictions or expressions of sex, violence, crime are all permitted virtually without limit; but religion, it seems, never.No wonder many in America…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cornyn/depictions-or-expressions-of-sex-violence-crime-are-all-permitted/)

[John Cornyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cornyn/)

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> [I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jude-law/i-ve-always-liked-what-thomas-more-said-in-utopia-which-is-that-in/)

[Jude Law](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jude-law/)

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                        "text": "Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless unless it is the work of one devoted to God, willing and glad to suffer all things for God, penetrated by the attractiveness of God. New machinery, adaptations and adjustments, are not the first need... but more devoted, adoring, sacrificial souls.",
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                        "text": "...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.",
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                        "text": "“Getting a new version of the answer every day, Artyom was unable to compel himself to believe what was true, because the next day another, no less precise and comprehensive one, might arise. Whom should he believe? And in what? ... Any faith served man only as a crutch supporting him. ... He understood why man needs this support. Without it, life would have become empty, like an abandoned tunnel.”",
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                        "text": "... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?",
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                        "text": "“Sometimes in church circles, we talk more about contentment (which is a good thing) but it can minimize the importance of ambition—that somehow it is more spiritual for Christians to be passive. This misunderstanding had slowed me down to the point where I wasn’t moving ahead at all. I learned that ambition is really a desire to grow. I realized that in order for me to obey God’s call to be “fruitful and multiply” (Gen. 1:28), I needed to stop shutting down ambition just because I was afraid to be disappointed. The Hebrew word pārâ in that verse means “to bear fruit, to grow, to increase.”2 This is the essence of ambition—it’s the desire to step forward, to take risks, and expand our lives, instead of shrinking back.”",
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                        "text": "As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide much of the foundation of our laws and social codes. But where religion and tradition are used to justify discrimination and especially when they are used to justify cruel and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, infanticide and child marriage, then we believe that is unacceptable.",
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                        "text": "The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.",
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                        "text": "“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pesthole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don't feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.”",
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                        "text": "One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.",
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                        "text": "“to the world. God created both body and soul, and the resurrection of Jesus shows that he is going to redeem both body and soul. The work of the Spirit of God is not only to save souls but also to care and cultivate the face of the earth, the material world. It is hard to overemphasize the uniqueness of this vision. Outside of the Bible, no other major religious faith holds out any hope or even interest in the restoration of perfect shalom, justice, and wholeness in this material world. Vinoth Ramachandra, a Sri Lankan Christian writer, can see”",
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                        "text": "“[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with experiences that bruised my spirit - but they never harmed my ideal world. That was always mine to retreat into at will. I learned that that world and the real world clashed hopelessly and irreconcilably; and I learned to keep them apart so that the former might remain for me unspoiled. I learned to meet other people on their own ground since there seemed to be no meeting place on mine. I learned to hide the thoughts and dreams and fancies that had no place in the strife and clash of the market place. I found that it was useless to look for kindred souls in the multitude; one might stumble on such here and there, but as a rule it seemed to me that the majority of people lived for the things of time and sense alone and could not understand my other life. So I piped and danced to other people's piping - and held fast to my own soul as best I could.”",
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                        "text": "“What you find in the Bible are stories accurately reflecting the dominant consciousness of the day, and yet right in among and sometimes even within those very same violent stories, you find radically new ideas about freedom, equality, justice, compassion, and love. New ideas sit side by side with old ideas. Vicious violence is right there next to new understandings of peace and justice. (Kind of like now.)”",
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                        "text": "“The Spirit of God uses the Word of God to work in our lives. Read Colossians 3:16—4:1 and you will see a parallel to our Ephesians passage. And you will note that to be filled with the Word of God produces joy, thanksgiving, and submission. In other words, when you are controlled by the Word of God, you are filled with the Spirit of God.”",
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                        "text": "“Whether Jewish or Christian, our religions have stressed too strongly the strictly historical aspect, so that we are, so to say, in worship of the historical event, instead of being able to read through that event to the spiritual message for ourselves. People turn to Oriental religion because therein they find the real message which has been closed by excessive literalism and historicism in their own religion and which is now open to them”",
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                        "text": "“Incompatible religious doctrines have balkanized our world into separate moral communities, and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed. Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it has been at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews vs. Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians vs. Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians vs. Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants vs. Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims vs. Hindus), Sudan (Muslims vs. Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims vs. Christians), Ethiopia and Eritrea (Muslims vs. Christians), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese Buddhists vs. Tamil Hindus), Indonesia (Muslims vs. Timorese Christians), Iran and Iraq (Shiite vs. Sunni Muslims), and the Caucasus (Orthodox Russians vs. Chechen Muslims; Muslim Azerbaijanis vs. Catholic and Orthodox Armenians) are merely a few cases in point. These are places where religion has been the explicit cause of literally millions of deaths in recent decades. Why is religion such a potent source of violence? There is no other sphere of discourse in which human beings so fully articulate their differences from one another, or cast these differences in terms of everlasting rewards and punishments. Religion is the one endeavor in which us–them thinking achieves a transcendent significance. If you really believe that calling God by the right name can spell the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, then it becomes quite reasonable to treat heretics and unbelievers rather badly. The stakes of our religious differences are immeasurably higher than those born of mere tribalism, racism, or politics.”",
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