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Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.

George Amos Dorsey

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George Amos Dorsey

George Amos Dorsey

Born: February 6, 1868
Died: March 29, 1931 (aged 63)
Bio: George Amos Dorsey was an U.S. ethnographer of indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a special focus on Caddoan and Siouan tribes.
Known for:
  1. Traditions of the Arapaho (1903)
  2. The Pawnee mythology (1906)
  3. The Cheyenne (1905)
  4. The mythology of the Wichita (1904)
  5. The Oraibi Soyal ceremony (1901)

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