“As a minister I tried to explain God’s apparent cruelty and apathy. Eventually I realized they were just excuses… bad ones.” – Dennis Augustine, former minister
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Piety
“The existence of pious feeling, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance.”
Lydia Maria Child, The Progress of Religious Ideas Through Successive Ages (1855)
Thoughts on Thoughts 