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- From: Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi)
- Subject: Thoughts for theocrats
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:03:29 GMT
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- "It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with
- religion."
- -- Archbishop William Temple, 1955
- "There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as
- great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things
- as possible."
- -- Sean O'Casey, "The Plough and The Stars"
- "To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to
- enslave a philosohpy."
- -- William Ralph Inge, 1920
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- "Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth.
- For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears.
- Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built."
- -- Lord Samuel, "Romanes Lecture", 1947
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- "The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it."
- -- George Bernard Shaw, "St. Joan"
- "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
- -- Monty Python
- Chuck
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