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Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.
— Yevgeny Zamiatin, On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters (1923)

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It is possible that many religions are moderately true.
— James Hilton, Lost Horizon (1933)

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The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
— Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)

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Man is so built that he cannot imagine his own death. This leads to endless invention of religions. While this conviction by no means proves immortality to be a fact, questions generated by it are overwhelmingly important. The nature of life, how ego hooks into the body, the problem of ego itself and why each ego seems to be the center of the universe, the purpose of life, the purpose of the universe—these are paramount questions, Ben; they can never be trivial. Science hasn’t solved them—and who am I to sneer at religions for trying, no matter how unconvincingly to me?
—Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

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Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
— Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)

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Churches and the Cosa Nostra have something in common: a sort of pristine indi.erence at the very top levels. All the malignant chores fall to the smallfries down at the bottom.
— Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny, Deus Irae (1976)

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The Christians as I understand them want save mankind from sin without first understanding either sin or mankind.
— George Turner, Drowning Towers (1987)

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On Thursday a small war broke out between those who worshipped the Mother Goddess in her aspect of the Moon and those who worshipped her in her aspect of a huge fat woman with enormous buttocks. After that the masters intervened and explained that religion, while a fine thing, could be taken too far.
— Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (1989)

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