feel guilty contemplating “betraying” tradition love acknowledging dis — Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking Spell: Religion a Natural Phenomenon

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Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyal—the "eternal" tradition introduced to them in their youth—is in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition.

Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

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