Wally LambReligion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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Religion’s just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all. Religion is a way that people seek to order their world and a way that people seek to explain the world around them. Religion is a way for people to cope with our place in the world and a way for people to understand just how much we have been given. If religion is about anything it’s about faith, hope, love, and faith.
Religion is not about hate, fear, or violence. Religion is not about war or violence or murder or domination or control. Religion is not even really about sex except as it relates to marriage (and even then religion will say that sex can be sinful).
Religion is not about pleasure; it’s about the sacred.
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