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“Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.”

Source: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

“A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of life with all of its defining prejudices. It thereby provides an appropriate and legitimate outlet for one's anger. The authority of an inerrant Bible that can be readily quoted to buttress this point of view becomes an essential ingredient to such a life. When that Bible is challenged, or relativized, the resulting anger proves the point categorically.”

Source: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks this Meaning of Script

“It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller.”

Doubt Majors Ingredients Thrillers Paranoid

Author:Alice Winocour

“There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.”

Power Missing Perception Majors Ingredients

Author:Paul Wellstone