Jim

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“It’s may we live as long as we want, and never want as long as we live,”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts

“The nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer, upon seeing the explosion, quoted from the Bhagavadgita: ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“When the gods created man, Gilgamesh had learned, they set death as man’s inevitable destiny, and man must learn to live with it.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind