Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, I am …

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Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, I am not the kind of person I want to be. It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied. ✨ Dune. Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.
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