Maria SempleMaybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.
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The idea of religion as a form of faith is an old one. In the past, some people believed that a god would look after them while they were alive and take them to heaven once they died. This is not the only way people have believed in a god though. In a world where science has replaced religion as a source of knowledge, some people believe in a god who created the world but does not interfere with it. These people sometimes call that god by other names such as nature or evolution.
Source: Whered You Go, Bernadette
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