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We can get a just view of religion only by placing its defects in parallel with its merits. To get at the truth about religion, and by "religion" is meant here not any particular one but the entire cluster of authentic sacred revelations throughout the world, it is quite insufficient to consider it only in decay and corruption. We must also consider its early purity and original concepts. It is quite unfair to examine only the superstitions that degrade it. We must also examine the truths that inspire it. A balanced view would recognize that underneath all its evils which atheists point out, religion holds much that is good and beneficent.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 1 : Origin, Purpose of Religions > # 50