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102:7.3 Those who would [[invent]] a [[religion]] without [[God]] are like those who would gather fruit without trees, have [[children]] without [[parents]]. You cannot have [[effects]] without [[causes]]; only the [[I AM]] is causeless. The [[fact]] of [[religious]] [[experience]] implies [[God]], and such a [[God]] of [[personal]] [[experience]] must be a [[personal]] [[Deity]]. You cannot [[pray]] to a [[chemical]] [[formula]], supplicate a [[mathematical]] [[equation]], [[worship]] a [[hypothesis]], confide in a postulate, [[commune]] with a [[process]], serve an [[abstraction]], or hold loving fellowship with a [[law]].

102:7.3 Those who would [[invent]] a [[religion]] without [[God]] are like those who would gather fruit without trees, have [[children]] without [[parents]]. You cannot have [[effects]] without [[causes]]; only the [[I AM]] is causeless. The [[fact]] of [[religious]] [[experience]] implies [[God]], and such a [[God]] of [[personal]] [[experience]] must be a [[personal]] [[Deity]]. You cannot [[pray]] to a [[chemical]] [[formula]], supplicate a [[mathematical]] [[equation]], [[worship]] a [[hypothesis]], confide in a postulate, [[commune]] with a [[process]], serve an [[abstraction]], or hold loving fellowship with a [[law]].

102:7.4 True, many [[apparently]] [[religious]] [[traits]] can grow out of nonreligious [[roots]]. Man can, [[intellectually]], deny [[God]] and yet be [[morally]] [[good]], [[loyal]], filial, [[honest]], and even [[idealistic]]. Man may graft many purely [[humanistic]] branches onto his basic [[spiritual]] [[nature]] and thus [[apparently]] [[prove]] his contentions in behalf of a [[Atheism|godless religion]], but such an [[experience]] is devoid of [[survival]] [[values]], God-knowingness and God-[[ascension]]. In such a [[mortal]] [[experience]] only [[social]] fruits are forthcoming, not [[spiritual]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafting graft] determines the [[nature]] of the fruit, notwithstanding that the living sustenance is drawn from the [[roots]] of [[original]] [[divine]] [[endowment]] of both [[mind]] and [[spirit]].

102:7.4 True, many [[apparently]] [[religious]] [[traits]] can grow out of nonreligious [[roots]]. Man can, [[intellectually]], deny [[God]] and yet be [[morally]] [[good]], [[loyal]], filial, [[honest]], and even [[idealistic]]. Man may graft many purely [[humanistic]] branches onto his basic [[spiritual]] [[nature]] and thus [[apparently]] [[prove]] his contentions in behalf of a [[Atheism|godless religion]], but such an [[experience]] is devoid of [[survival]] [[values]], God-knowingness and God-[[ascension]]. In such a [[mortal]] [[experience]] only [[social]] fruits are forthcoming, not [[spiritual]]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafting graft] determines the [[nature]] of the fruit, notwithstanding that the living sustenance is drawn from the [[roots]] of [[original]] [[divine]] [[endowment]] of both [[mind]] and [[spirit]].

102:7.5 The [[intellectual]] earmark of [[religion]] is [[certainty]]; the [[philosophical]] characteristic is [[consistency]]; the social fruits are [[love]] and [[service]].

102:7.5 The [[intellectual]] earmark of [[religion]] is [[certainty]]; the [[philosophical]] characteristic is [[consistency]]; the social fruits are [[love]] and [[service]].

102:7.10 Of [[God]], the most inescapable of all [[presences]], the most real of all [[facts]], the most living of all [[truths]], the most [[loving]] of all [[friends]], and the most [[divine]] of all [[values]], we have the right to be the most [[certain]] of all [[universe]] [[experiences]].

102:7.10 Of [[God]], the most inescapable of all [[presences]], the most real of all [[facts]], the most living of all [[truths]], the most [[loving]] of all [[friends]], and the most [[divine]] of all [[values]], we have the right to be the most [[certain]] of all [[universe]] [[experiences]].

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