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We must separate, in our minds, institutional religion from personal religion, the outward structures they have built up historically from the inward atmosphere they have created individually. Persecutions and pogroms come more often from the first, yet without these institutions how would the texts, the teachings, and the reminders be passed down?

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 4 : Problems of Organized Religion > # 201