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[Sorry about the empty entry my nightly script posted this morning. I crashed hard last night before I'd managed to update the quotes queue, and I had let the buffer of scheduled quotations run dry..]

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2014-03-16:

"Religious fervor is back today, we might say it comes and goes like seasonal flu, and each time leaves a nation weakened for the next attack." -- Diane Johnson, writer and novelist.

(submitted to the mailing list by Mike Krawchuk)

[See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Awakening (though the second did at least foster abiolition and women's rights movements). But this time around I wonder how much religious fervor there is, versus religious imagery being useed to paint over racism and homophobia.]