Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds: grow. (Henry Morton Stanley)

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds: grow.

Henry Morton Stanley

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