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RELIGION
Dave Thomson | So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it.
Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code. We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. |
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal.
He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat i