# Quote — Sheri S. Tepper, Raising The Stones

> Over time, a very nice system had developed by which persons actually interested in religion as religion (rather than religion as a system of social control, religion as politics, religion as warfare, or religion as spectacle) met over luncheon from time to time to read their scholarly research to one another, while clerks and aides got on with the endless and self-generating paperwork, or so it was still called, despite the fact there was little or no paper involved.

- Author: [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md)
- Book: [Raising The Stones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/raising-the-stones.md)
- Page: 319
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/raising-the-stones/over-time-a-very

## More from this book

> There is no sin inherent in any mind save the sin of pride in believing one has seen or been taught the absolute truth. The second greatest sin is refusing to search for the truth one must acknowledge one will never absolutely find.

p. 155 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/raising-the-stones/there-is-no-sin.md)

> “It seems to me,” said Spiggy softly, “that when a race of man becomes so anthropocentric it regards other living beings as lesser consumables, it could get to be a habit. It might become easy to include other living creatures with the Gharm. Animals. Children. Women. Entire planet. Perhaps they, too, become consumables, to be used up and thrown away.”

p. 284 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/raising-the-stones/it-seems-to-me-said.md)

> I’ve met the prophet Awateh, and he’s very religious, but he’s also completely off his head. It seems to me religious toleration stops when they intend to kill you or hurt you with it. Africa, that’s my aunt, she always said noninterference was a two-way street.

p. 397 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/raising-the-stones/ive-met-the.md)