Religion
The majority of Leonese are Roman Catholics with a non-religious minority.
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“The great end of all religion ... is to purify our heartsand conquer our passionsand in a word, to make us wiser and better menbetter neighboursbetter citizensand better servants of GOD.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is thisthat offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be madenot to understandbut to feelas crime.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)
“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”
—Ernst Cassirer (18741945)