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He may attend his ancestral church, temple, mosque, or synagogue if he wishes but it will not be at all necessary for spiritual comfort to do so. His obedience to the obligation is merely a gesture, an outward symbol of acknowledgment that there is a Higher Power worthy of homage and worship. And he makes this acknowledgment to confirm the faith of the ignorant who are not able to do more than take their religion on external authority.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 6 : Philosophy and Religion > # 177