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29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / a. Religious Belief

23849	Religion should quietly suffuse all human life with its light [Weil]
	Full Idea: The proper function of religion is to suffuse with its light all secular life, public or private, without in any way dominating it.
	From: Simone Weil (The Need for Roots [1943], II 'Nation')
	A reaction: Even for the non-religious there is something attractive about some view of the world which 'suffuses our lives with light'. It probably describes medieval Christendom, but that contained an awful lot of darkness.