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It is enough to make two statements about the Russians--first, the government in all its departments officially opposes religion; second, the highly influential Communist Party makes atheism an article of belief before membership is granted--to understand why and predict that either self-reaction or self-destruction awaits them. There may be no future also for the Russian Orthodox Church--narrow, intolerant, and materialistic as it was--but religion in a larger, purer, and truer sense must one day return because of the innate need for it.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 4 : Problems of Organized Religion > # 24