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“The idea of blaming God gets a clearer sense and becomes much more salient in the modern era where people begin to think they know just what God was purposing in creating the world, and can check the results against the intention.”
— May 25, 2019 04:49AM
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'The religious reference in our national identity doesn't so much disappear, as change, retreat to a certain distance. It remains powerful in memory; but also as a kind of reserve fund of spiritual force or consolation'
— Jun 11, 2019 01:15PM
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"The result is what I'm calling a 'neo-Durkheimian effect, where the sense of belonging to group and confession are fused, and the moral issues of the group's history tend to be coded in religious categories"
— Jun 03, 2019 12:39PM
