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Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

Rodger Kamenetz

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Rodger Kamenetz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
Poet
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Direct
Religious
Religion
Often
Rabbi
Experience
Priest
Threatening
Priests
Organized

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