"Religion had not always been the celebration of ignorance as a divine command. However, those who have only ever known the faiths of Judaism, neo-Judaism (Christianity), as well as the followers of Mohammed, assume wrongly that religion has only ever been about blindly following edicts extolling as virtuous imbecilic ignorance, hate, and murder.
My Sfinx, with her prophylactic gas-mask has largely survived the toxicity."

READ MORE HERE in my 2008 explanatory essay