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James M. Ridgway, Jr.

·Mar 23

God did not create man. Man created Gods as a last refuge of hope. Nature has impulsed us to want to live forever as part of our survival mechanism. Thus we are pushed at our most primitive level to seek some kind of spiritual lifeboat into eternity.

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