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“In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.”
― The Future of an Illusion
― The Future of an Illusion
“Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.”
― When God Was a Woman
― When God Was a Woman
“Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?”
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“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.”
― The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
― The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
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