If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (Theodore Dreiser)

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.

Theodore Dreiser

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