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rfmcdonaldFrom Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum, Granny Weatherwax speaking on page 349:
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Now if I'd seen [God], really there, really alive, it'd be in me like a fever. If I thought there was some god who really did care two hoots about people, who watched 'em like a father and cared for them like a mother ... well, you wouldn't catch me sayin' things like "There are two sides to every question" and "We must respect other people's beliefs." You wouldn't find me just being gen'rally nice in the hope that it'd all turn out right in the end, not if that flame was burning in me like an unforgivin' sword. And I did say burnin', Mister Oats, as that's what it'd be. You say that you people don't burn folk and sacrifice people any more, but that's what true faith would mean, y'see? Sacrificin' your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin' the truth of it, workin' for it, breathin' the soul of it. That's religion. Anything else is just ... is just being nice. And a way of keepin' in touch with the neighbours.
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