Reinhold Niebuhr quote: Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it ...

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr ~

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