Religions have done far more damage over the centuries than… - Marge Piercy

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Religions have done far more damage over the centuries than good. Religion may help individuals to bear hard times and trouble and loss, but institutionalized religion of all stripes quickly becomes dangerous. Established religion always seems to breed a them vs us mentality that has lead to crusades, pogroms, ethnic cleansing, the Inquisition, genocide, civil war, and legal discrimination.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is a Jewish American poet, novelist, and social activist.

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Who wants equality? Those who do not have it.

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just as politically when there is no vocabulary for discussing your situation, when you're a woman before there is language of feminism, trying to understand what it's like to be a woman, you have no concepts, no vocabulary for even understanding your own situation.

Religions have done far more damage over the centuries than good. Religion may help individuals to bear hard times and trouble and loss, but institut… - Marge Piercy

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