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They have set aside what brains they have…and out their faith in that gigantic and fraudulent insurance company called religion. It promises then an eternity of joy in the next life if they live according to the rules in this one…but that’s not enough. When the pain comes, they want miracles.

I was frozen in place. By horror, yes, of course. But there was also a wild, inchoate exultation, a feeling that at last someone was telling me the exact unvarnished truth. Part of me hoped he would stop; most of me wished fiercely that he would go on…

Let us say plainly what Saint Paul meant when he spoke of that darkened glass. He meant we’re supposed to take it all on faith. If our faith is strong, we’ll go to heaven, and we’ll understand the whole thing when we get there. As if life were a joke, and heaven is the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us.

We shall steal fire from the heavens, and I shall not repent, even for one minute- for what sort of god would condemn us to such a cold world without it? We’re merely taking what should have been ours from the beginning.