"The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity."
― William Robertson Smith
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Religion
More From William Robertson Smith
- "Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion… was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society."
- "Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged."
- "We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit."
More In Religion
- "Every fundamentalist movement I’ve studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion."― Karen Armstrong
- "Religion is the opium of the masses."― Karl Marx
- "One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion."― Albert Einstein