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Not only are there intellectual differences between people; there are also emotional and even aesthetic differences. Most are natural, some are developed. The preferences for bare cold services in one group are caused by personality traits as much as the preferences for ritualistic incense-filled services in another group. Why not accept their existence as we accept other divergences, other variations in nature or life? Why use them as reasons for contention and competition instead of friendship and co-operation?

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 1 : Origin, Purpose of Religions > # 197