“But it has been necessary, for the benefit of the social order, to convert religion into a kind of police system, and hence hell. Oriental or Greek Christianity is predominantly eschatological, Protestantism predominantly ethical, and Catholicism is a compromise between the two, although with the eschatological element predominating.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), IV : The Essence of Catholicism

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19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864–1936

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