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Religious feeling fluctuates and is usually a response to need, not a steady state of awe.

Drawn from what Irving Finkel said

religion

religion Faith as a thing a society runs on, and what has been tried in its place.

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

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  1. Irving Finkel

    Assyriologist at the British Museum

    It’s a kind of conception that’s not actually based on reality, that the individual’s response to religious stimuli fluctuates and is varied and is often a response to need.

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