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“Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.”

May Has Beens Said Seems Age Form Found Individual Given Religious Numbers Expression Industry Periods Evidence Concern Being True Substitutes Factories Gothic Cathedrals

Book:Charles Sheeler: across media

Source: Charles Sheeler: across media

“To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction with which we hold it can be perilous and destructive. Religious beliefs give a spurious spiritual dimension to tribal enmities.”

Giving Reason Spiritual Belief Religious Atheism Degrees Conviction Dimensions Destructive Substitutes Religious Belief Enmity Spiritual Dimensions

Author:Peter Medawar

“The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.”

Firsts Humans Children Sometimes Humor Religious Week Birth Six Devil Stealing Substitutes Infant

Author:Martin Luther

“I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect, and the secure enjoyment of it as the best human provision for bringing all either into the same way of thinking, or into that mutual charity which is the only substitute, I observe with pleasure the view you give of the spirit in which your sect partake of the blessings offered by our Government and laws.”

Source: 1816-1828

“The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.”

Art Christian Culture Religious Christianity Position Western Substitutes Elevation Western Culture

Book:The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

Source: The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

“The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists.”

Ifs Christian Religious Christianity Germany Substitutes Regimes Nazi Paganism Extremist

Book:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.”

Religion Religious Education Products Substitutes Strict Supplements

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel