A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
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- Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
- Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
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