God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves.
