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The World Needs Religion Even if it Doesn't Need God

Intelligence Squared

CHAPTER

The Mystery of Ritual

I'm not interested in charm. Well, I am. But I mean, I want truth as well. If you have a faith in a God, it's not all hunky dory. People are being killed for their God and they're prepared to do it. And let's get away from this idea that God is just logos. What about my thoughts? This whole idea, yes, of ritual,. Not ritual for the sake of religion and conformity but to excite what Sarah Sands says in the evening standard today, the mystery. Let's not be arrogant. Have you not learned from your religion how arrogance can destroy us?"

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