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Religious bodies exist in part to allay the metaphysical fears that are buried deep in our nature. ...
In submission to the Divine Will there is a sense of ultimate safety, which has led to religious abasement in many monarchs who could not submit to any merely earthly being. All submissiveness is rooted in fear, whether the leader to whom we submit be human or divine.
Source: Bertrand Russell : Power, a new social analysis, 1938
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