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Religion
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It is generally agreed that religion is either of paramount importance or the most serious to progress. To its devotees religion is of overwhelming importance; to unbelievers it is, in the phrasing of Burke, "superstitious folly, enthusiastical nonsense, and holy tyranny." The difference between the friends and the enemies of religion may, I think, be resolved. Religion recognizes some final arbitration of human destiny; it is a lively awareness of the fact that, while man proposes, it is only within certain narrow limits that he can his own plans. His nicest adjustments and most ardent longings are overruled; he knows that until he can discount that which commands his fortunes, his is precarious. Irreligion, on the other hand, is a product of civilization. There is a sense, then, in which both religion and irreligion are to be justified. If religion is guilty of unreason, irreligion is guilty of apathy. For without doubt the situation of the individual man is broadly such as religion conceives it to be. There is nothing that he can build, nor any precaution that he can , that weighs appreciably in the balance against the powers which decree good and ill fortune, catastrophe and triumph, life and death. Hence, to be without is the part of folly. Behold the fear of the Lord; that is wisdom.
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