Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilli…

George Santayana
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Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. ✨ The Life of Reason vol. 3, ch. 1 (1905)
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