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Edgar Allan Poe

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Imagination

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Edgar Allan Poe suggests that religion developed from human tendencies like deceit, anxiety, desire for wealth, creative thinking, and artistic expression. He implies that these elements combined over time to form the beliefs and stories that make up religious systems.

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