“How good to have things like this, to be worshipped again, to pretend to have a mystery!”
“You have to be careful how you fake it, though, because things like that can stick and before you know it you become what you're pretending to be..”
“You do not have to worhip god to be good and you certainly do not have to be good to worship god.”
“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
“And it is, after all, as good a way as any of solving the problem of existence to get near enough to the things and people that have appeared to us beautiful and mysterious from a distance to be able to satisfy ourselves that they have neither mystery nor beauty.”
“To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.”