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The first purpose of religion is an individual one. It is to inculcate belief in a higher power and an immaterial reality--God. The second purpose is a social one. It is to teach a code of morals to govern human relations.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 1 : Origin, Purpose of Religions > # 24