Brian Eshleman’s Reviews > The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion > Status Update

"A religion is not simply a means for understanding one's self, or even for contemplating the nature of the universe, or exist, or of anything else. A religion is, at its heart, a way of denying the authority of the rest world; it is a way of saying to fellow human beings and to the state those elderly human beings have erected, 'No, I will NOT accede to your will.'"