“This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?” Juanita shrugs. “What's the difference?”
“Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion... What's the difference”
“Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.”
“. Christianity is marketed as a religion of love and tolerance, but inwardly it is a destructive virus that causes division, promotes willful ignorance and retards intellectual growth.”
“In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.”
“I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict -- the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea.”