“Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a
dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many
rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert,
someone who loves you—even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial
being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army,
business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all
opposition. Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage
points from which to view the world. So none of this is happening. Such
things could not occur. Never a word of it is literally true.”
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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