Sublime

God – supposing there is a God – is on the gallows with them, twisting on the rope. It has to be one or the other. God is either dead or in some sense helpless.

Marsiglio, on the contrary, still aims at preserving the unity of the Catholic faith, but wishes this to be done by democratic means, not by the papal absolutism. In practice, most Protestants, when they acquired the government, merely substituted the King for the Pope, and thus secured neither liberty of private judgement nor a democratic method

Jordan Maxwell (From: Secret Societies and Toxic Religion)

Ces derniers chapitres commencent par une charge violente contre les clercs, les théologiens et les autorités religieuses, qui utilisent et interprètent les Écritures afin de consolider leur pouvoir et d’étendre leur domination sur les hommes :

Religion can be just as Apollonian as science, especially in its cassocked and organised manifestation. It is always a need to control, a fear of disorder, a mistrust of freedom – and panic in the face of the Dionysian impulse towards rhapsody and excess.