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Why Religion?: A Personal Story by Elaine Pagels

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Freud suggested that if we believe that gods inflict earthquakes, floods, and lightning strikes, we may imagine that we can do something about what’s beyond our control; at least we can seek to pacify the gods with offerings and prayer.

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“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.”
― John Ruskin

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“All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream. —T. K. Whipple, Study Out the Land”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

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