Steven Pinker quote: Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while ...

Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality from more modern principles.

~ Steven Pinker ~

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