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> [Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/art-is-not-a-substitute-religion-it-is-a-religion-in-the-true-sense/)

[Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/)

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> [For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pauline-kael/for-a-while-in-the-twenties-and-thirties-art-was-talked-about-as-a/)

[Pauline Kael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pauline-kael/)

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> [Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/solaristics-wrote-muntius-is-a-substitute-for-religion-in-the-space/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leland-ryken/the-secularization-of-western-culture-was-accompanied-by-the/)

[Leland Ryken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leland-ryken/)

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> [Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-muggeridge/sex-is-the-ersatz-or-substitute-religion-of-the-20th-century/)

[Malcolm Muggeridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-muggeridge/)

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> [We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/we-know-too-much-and-are-convinced-of-too-little-our-literature-is-a/)

[T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/)

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