I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodo…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush. ✨ Interview with Mehdi Hasan, www.newstatesman.com. June 18, 2010.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush. ✨ Interview with Mehdi Hasan, www.newstatesman.com. June 18, 2010.

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