Quote - "In the beginning was the word and the word was god."

 

 

I always thought that one was in serious need of correction. Whomever wrote it had an ambitious idea but just totally missed the base on a couple points.

"In the beginning there was nothing and the nothing became energy and some of the energy became matter."

Much better.

And on a completely obscure tiny blue planet 13-some billion years later in an equally unnoticeable and insignificant common galaxy, an intelligent species invented gods to allay their knowledge of their utter insignificance und unimportance; to elevate themselves to something higher than their reality allowed.

And aside from all the scholarly historical curiosities, that's pretty much everything anyone needs to know about religion. ;-)

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