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    In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

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In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.

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Life is a tightrope with God at the end. If we walk with our eyes down, looking at what is read more

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There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, read more

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A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, read more

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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the read more

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

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The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

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