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Religion & History

  • Nature and history do not agree with our conceptions of good and bad; they define good as that which survives, and bad as that which goes under.
  • Religion does not seem at first to have had any connection with morals. It was fear that first made the gods. Only when priests used these fears and rituals to support morality and law did religion become a force vital and rival to the state.
  • Religion has conferred meaning and dignity upon the lowliest existence.
  • Destroy that hope, and class war is intensified. Heaven and utopia are buckets in a well: when one goes down the other goes up. Puritanism and paganism—the repression and the expression of the senses and desires—alternate in mutual reaction in history.
  • Generally religion and puritanism prevail in periods when the laws are feeble and morals must bear the burden of maintaining social order.
  • There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
  • As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

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