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'Even if some details of dogma aren't true- or even all of 'em- think what a consolation religion and the church are to weak humanity!' 'Are they? I wonder! Don't cheerful agnostics, who know they are going to die dead, worry much less than good Baptists, who worry lest their sons and cousins and sweethearts fail to get into the Baptist heaven- or what is even worse, who wonder if they may not have guessed wrong- if God may not be a Catholic, maybe, or a Mormon or Seventh-day Adventist instead of a Baptist, and then they'll go to hell themselves. Consolation? No!'

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