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The writing is somewhat uneven but I am giving this book 5 stars because its' premise and hypotheses are so important. Since I was 18 years old I have wondered about the origins of language, music, dance. These are so prevalent in all human societies
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“Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.”
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
“We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change.”
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
“All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.”
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
“We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change.”
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
“Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?”
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
“All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.”
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
“It is not very romantic, but reality is a better basis for building a relationship than fantasizing about a soul mate or counting on a god to find you a partner.”
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
“Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.”
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
