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After we have made our worst criticism of religion we have still to recognize the fact that a world left without any religion at all is a world left in grave peril. For the vacuum left by the disappearance of an outworn religion must be filled with something else. If it should be atheistic immorality, then the belief that evil-doing, selfish aggression, and injury to others are justifiable and unpunished will be rampant.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 1 : Origin, Purpose of Religions > # 52