If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game.
Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system
of make believe.
-- Aldous Huxley "Time Must Have a Stop" (1894-1963)
Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system
of make believe.
-- Aldous Huxley "Time Must Have a Stop" (1894-1963)
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