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To say that one’s actions can please or disappoint God is to say that one can control—at least to a degree—God.

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“The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing . . . [When the] shadow of religion disappeared forever . . . I felt that I was free from a disease.”

~ Samuel Porter Putnam, My Religious Experience, 1891