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When the ceremonies and forms of religion have become a tangled network, when the primal simplicity of its sanctities has been lost underneath the fussy elaborations of its dogmas, it becomes sterile and unhelpful: from the highest point of view, such religion becomes irreligion.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 4 : Problems of Organized Religion > # 80