Will Durant[R]eligion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man.
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Religion is something that people create. There is no religion or deity that came down to us from the sky and told us how to do things. Religion comes from the human heart and not from a book. The human heart and imagination are what we need to understand the world we live in and how we fit into it.
The wonders and tragedies of our lives force us to reevaluate our beliefs and our place in the world. Religion isn’t just something that came down from above, it is something that developed from human beings taking everything they can learn from life and applying it to their lives.
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