The Struggles of Religion

The Aztecs had to tear open a human chest cavity every day just to make sure that the sun would rise. How much vanity must be concealed, not too effectively at that, in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan? God did not create man in his own image. Evidently it was the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions. The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made. And the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did. Still less can they hope to tell