"Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there."
— Vine Deloria Jr.

January 1, 1970

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Commonly attributed to Deloria on the internet, or sometimes to a few others, but without legitimate sourcing, the earliest variant of this yet located is a single quotation in Awakened India Vo. 99 (1994) p. 327, ascribed to Fr. Patrick Collins, University of Notre Dame, USA: