One of my books says that at times men have worshipped the ocean as a god. I can understand that easily. Yes. But the Baleens would never have understood such a thing; they would have called the idea ‘blasphemy.’ The God they worship is an abstract and ferociously moral thing, like a computer. And the compelling, mystical rabbi, Jesus, they have turned into some kind of moral Detector. I want none of that, and none of the Jehovah of the Book of Job, either.
