a depth religion, uniting people in suffering and death. It would not promise any primary or ultimate truth.... Such a religion would lack any providence, any shining hereafter, but would bind us together as fellows in the unknown adventure. Such a religion would not have promises but roots: roots in our cultures and civilizations, in planetary and human history; roots in life; roots in the stars that have forged the atoms of which we are made; roots in the cosmos where the particles were born and out of which our atoms were made.... Such a religion would involve a belief, like all religions
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