Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence...and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

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Irvin D. Yalom was a contemporary American existential psychiatrist. Irvin David Yalom is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Religion — Exploring belief systems, worship, and spiritual practice

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