"Is this part of your church thing?" he asks. Juanita has been using her excess money to start her own branch of the Catholic church - she considers herself a missionary to the intelligent atheists of the world.
"Don't be condescending," she says. "That's exactly the attitude I'm fighting. Religion is not for simpletons."
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"Hey, I went to church every week in high school. I sang in the choir."
"I know. That's exactly the problem. Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds."
From Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. A cyberpunk sci-fi novel, read the above and it made me smile.
"Don't be condescending," she says. "That's exactly the attitude I'm fighting. Religion is not for simpletons."
...
"Hey, I went to church every week in high school. I sang in the choir."
"I know. That's exactly the problem. Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds."
From Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. A cyberpunk sci-fi novel, read the above and it made me smile.
