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He was all the more at rest, since he was certain that there was nobody in the confessionals save a few devout women; he saw without observing.

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In his great novel, "The Brothers Karamazov," Dostoevsky gives these words to Ivan, addressed to his naive and devout younger brother, Alyosha: "If the sufferings of children go to make up the sum of sufferings which is necessary for the purchase of truth, then I say beforehand that the entire truth is not worth such a price.

This book, "Finding Darwin's God," by Kenneth Miller, is one of the most effective attacks on Intelligent Design that I know and it's all the more effective because it's written by a devout Christian.

And to my mother, Oprah is a greater moral authority than the Pope, which is actually saying something because she's a devout Catholic.

She was a devout conservative Catholic, a believer in traditional family values, stereotypical roles of men and women, and I was, well, me.

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