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On the balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil. But for good people to do evil—that takes religion.
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Say to a person who is believed to belong to the wise men of Israel that the Almighty sends His Angel to enter the womb of a woman and to form there a foetus, he will be satisfied with the account, he will believe it… he considers it possible as a divine miracle. But tell him that God gave the seed a formative power which produces and shapes the limbs, and it is this power which produces and shapes the limbs, and it is this power that is called an angel… and he will turn away.
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If we are absolutely sure that our beliefs are right, and those of others wrong, that we are motivated by good, and others by evil, that the King of the Universe speaks to us, and not to adherents of very different faiths, that it is wicked to challenge conventional doctrines or to ask searching questions, that our main job is to believe and obey, then the witch mania will recur in its infinite variations down to the time of the last man.
