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History teaches the same story about all the religions. They begin as faiths, freely held in the heart; they culminate as creeds, imposed like shackles upon the mind. The myth of an almost ecclesiastical infallibility is maintained by the church leaders in their own interests.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 4 : Problems of Organized Religion > # 42