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Forms of religion are, Narvick, but religion itself predates wealth and majorities by tens of thousands of years. It was a way of dealing with the horrors prehistoric life would throw at people. Religion helps people get through disasters and bereavement, and so on, and hence it's been hardwired into us. There's little solace in atheism, much as atheists would like there to be.
Personally I find true atheism as dogmatic as religion. Agnosticism is the honest, real free thinking approach. Sometimes it's best to admit our ignorance, not to pretend to be certain one way or the other, because we're not.
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(Two can play at George Orwell quotes)
"In this country I don’t think it is enough realized—I myself had no idea of it until a few years ago—that Scotland has a case against England."
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