“The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live….”
Anne Brontë book Agnes Grey
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“Much of my criticism of religion comes about when I see it not only affirming the system of normalcy but teaching folks how to live there comfortably. It just increases our “stuckness” in the old world. As does a lot of poor psychotherapy. Cheap religion teaches us how to live successfully in a sick system.”
Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 132
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