Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh... And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.
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It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.
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Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.
Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.
Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.
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But Susan's thoughts were far removed from the political implications of Digital Fortress. She was still struggling to comprehend its existence. She'd spent her life breaking codes, firmly denying the existence of the ultimate code. She felt like an atheist coming face to face with God.
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God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.
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Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true.. Written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us.. Vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called.. Re-membered..-re-cognized.. As that which is already inside us.
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In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.
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Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
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You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.
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Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
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God's will is your deepest desires.
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Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.
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Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.