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When one talks or writes in public about popular religion, one must be cautious and careful, for it is very easy to tread on the feet of those who take popular religion quite literally and most seriously. Just as the educated Greeks and Romans could not, because they dared not, tell the masses that the various cults they worshipped were really the laws of nature, so the philosopher must be very careful if he hints that popular religion is merely the first step on the way to God--a step too often mixed with confusions and superstitions.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 6 : Philosophy and Religion > # 142