Not Forever, But For Now

by Chuck Palahniuk

Religion, Otto says, is merely what people invent when they wake late at night filled with the ancient terror of being found out in their little nest of grasses and torn to shreds by the inevitable.

That same process is always straining the toxins of the world through the kidneys, lungs, livers, spleens, and fatty tissues of the proles. It’s the wonderful little secret built into consumer materialism. The consumers pay for the privilege of collecting chemical agents and germs and viruses. Then all of it, the asbestos and dioxins and germs, goes into a nice casket and gets entombed in a lovely vault, end of story.