"Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification."
— Consolation

January 1, 1970

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Simone Weil, "Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine" as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 417.