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

23930	Religion sees infinite value in some things, and irrelevance in the rest [Bell,C]
	Full Idea: The essence of religion is a conviction that because some things are of infinite value most are profoundly unimportant.
	From: Clive Bell (Art [1913], II.I)
	A reaction: The aspect of religion which most worries atheists like Nietzsche. You can end up with a rather cool and detached view of genocide, if you really believe that worldly matters are unimportant. Do souls in heaven worry about the next life after that?