“The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.”
National Prayer Breakfast http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/02/03/remarks-president-national-prayer-breakfast, , quoted in * 2011-02-03
Cathy Lynn
Grossman
Obama's prayer: 'To walk closer with God'
USA Today
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2011/02/obama-christian-prayer-breakfast-doubt/1
2012-11-07
2011
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“Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim.”
Timothy Leary's Last Trip (1997)
Context: Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.
Sphinx Society lecture, Brown University, April 3, 2003 (as reported in the Brown Daily Herald
