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Cyril Cusack

"Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God."

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"Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God."

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"If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke."

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"The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if the knowledge of God were an alternative to the knowledge of woman, or to any other form of experience."

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"It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive of such a superlative being, though he would deny its existence in the real world. But, goes the argument, a being that doesn't exist in the real world is, by that very fact, less than perfect. Therefore we have a contradiction and, hey presto, God exists!"

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