And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination. You're gonna have to serve somebody. It may be the Devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody. The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. Here lies the body of John Smith, who for forty years cobbled shoes in this village to the glory of God.
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions.
We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth. It is true that selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves, either. I will tell you who you are. Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.