" Believers also avoid working out the strange logical consequences of these piecemeal revisions of ordinary things. They don't pause to wonder why a God who knows our intentions has to listen to our prayers, or how a God can both see into the future and care about how we choose to act. " | " Religion is the general theory of this world, ...and its universal basis of consolation and justification. " | " One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion. " |
" I began to question whether god intended to cast three quarters of human kind into outer darkness because they had never heard of him ...so I lost my formal faith but in anthropology I found an authentic framework which explains much of what goes on in the world without having to introduce gods. " | " The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years. " | " Priests and Kings are often one and the same. The leader is often considered divine, descendent from the gods, or at a minimum has a hotline to the gods. " |