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religion, while a fine thing, could be taken too far.
People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.
You scrimped and saved to send them to the best schools, and then they went and paid you back by getting educated.
You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
It’s probably because of quantum.
It was a great comfort knowing that the gods were there. It was knowing they were here that was the terrible part.
No one is more worried by the actual physical manifestation of a god than his priests; it’s like having the auditors in unexpectedly.
These men are philosophers, he thought. They had told him so. So their brains must be so big that they have room for ideas that no one else would consider for five seconds.
The trouble with gods is that after enough people start believing in them, they begin to exist. And what begins to exist isn’t what was originally intended.
