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Glen Cook on Religion

born 1944 United States

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I tend toward the cynical view where religion is concerned.

Soldiers Live (2000)

Already some who never questioned have begun to wonder if all religion isn’t just a shell game perpetrated by societies of con men who milk the gullible.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

I took nothing at face. Everywhere I turned religion popped up, and that’s a game of masks and deceit and illusions if ever there was one.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

Really? It made a crazy sense. Maybe perfect sense to somebody in the religion business.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion.

Shadows Linger (1984)

Do you comprehend the idea of symbol? You say you accept sorcery. The very root of sorcery is manipulation of symbol in a way that affects referent. And that’s the root of religion, too.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

You mess with people’s religion and you mess with fire. Even people who don’t much give a damn. Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

Shadows Linger (1984)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Glen Cook (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.