Jamy’s Reviews > The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life > Status Update

"Just think: if the soul were truly as ethereal as we tend to say it is, a merciless tongue of fire couldn’t lap the sinner’s skin, and the martyr couldn’t find bliss in the fleshy bosom of his promised seventy-two virgins, nor could familiar faces of those that have gone before flash us a warm, toothy grin as we “entered the light.”

Thanks for sucking the joy out of even the afterlife (or pain, as the case may be).

"One wouldn’t normally say that men should be promiscuous because, after all, the pulpy underflaring of their penises’ coronal ridges is specially tailored by God for excessive use with multiple women, retracting competitors’ sperm."

Haha. Another day another lesson. Right folks?

Is it just me, or is this book espousing a theory to all the questions I have been hurling my head at the brick wall all these years for answers? But I was told I aught to try the ramparts on the Great wall of China next. No? You got to read a book? Bugger!!

"So he supposed that there was a great and strong man, somehow hiding himself behind the hills. The sun was his ball of fire as a toy, and he amused himself in throwing it very high in the sky every morning and catching it every evening." Wow! Particularly insightful as to how the human mind will weave stories to make sense of his world because a deaf-mute without external knowledge actually concluded this as truth.

During the introduction, the author relates a personal anecdote about how he broke his neighbour's beloved Fabergé egg, which is one of those intricately painted decorative eggs, as a child and when eventually interrogated, invoked the name of God to extricate himself out of that pickle. Funny thing is, I already heard it related once before on an episode of Through the Wormhole. Sign of God??