[lbo-talk] re: 265 cracks of the whip

[B.]

"All the revealed religions you come across in the
world are full of tenebrous dogmas, unintelligible
principles, unbelievable wonders, astounding stories,
the whole mumbo jumbo invented, apparently, for the
sole purpose of insulting the intelligence and
flouting common sense ; without exception they all
announce an invisible God whose existence is
unfathomable. The behavior ascribed to him is as
puzzling, as inconceivable, as his very essence...."

Marquis de Sade, Juliette, p.459.