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Quotes from God Is Red — Vine Deloria Jr.

1933–2005

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Most tribal religions make no pretense as to their universality.

God Is Red (1973)

Besides the importance of land and religion, the existence of a specific religion among a distinct group of people is probably a fundamental element of human experience.

God Is Red (1973)

The idea that religion was conceived as originally designed for a particular people relating to a specific god falls well within the experiences of the rest of humankind and may conceivably be considered a basic factor in the existence of religion.

God Is Red (1973)

The very conception of a Chosen People implies a lost religious ethnicity. Most likely religions do not in fact cross national and ethnic lines without losing their power and identity. It is probably more in the nature of things to have different groups with different religions

God Is Red (1973)

The breakup of Christianity during the Reformation into national churches and the proliferation of denominations today would seem to indicate that a religious universality cannot be successfully maintained across racial and ethnic lines. ... Ethnicity will almost always triumph.

God Is Red (1973)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vine Deloria Jr. (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.