Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. -
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion. -
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. -
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It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.
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