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1 " It is undoubtedly true that religion is often socially conservative. By binding a people together under a shared God, a common cosmology and a common morality, religion creates order and stability and its rituals create social cohesio...n. By promising to the pious poor rewards in the next life, it reconciles them to their fate in this one and thus discourages them from rebelling against their condition...[also] religion [is] an inspiration to radicalism and rebellion. religion is a potential threat to any political or social order because it claims an authority higher than any available in this world. pp. 10-11 "
― , Politics and Religion
2 " She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion): she understood them all. "
― Clive Barker , Abarat: Absolute Midnight
3 " This worship of Humanity, with its rituals of Liberty and Equality, always struck me as like being a revival of the ancient cults, in which animals were gods or the gods bore the heads of animals. "
4 " The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation. "
― Mark O'Connell , Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever
