Let me out, or she dies!
Now the student has surpassed his teacher, Langdon thought. By several light-years.
Edmond found it deeply distressing,” Winston continued, “that the human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status of a divine fact, and then feel emboldened to kill in its name.
At night, this is a heavier world.
For the youth, the changes were too slow. For the aging traditionalists, the changes were blasphemous.
I give you my word that the next few years in human development will be shocking, disruptive, and wholly unimaginable!
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? – NIETZSCHE.
Capitalism is non-denominational.
Robert,” Ambra whispered, “just remember the wise words of Disney’s Princess Elsa.” Langdon turned. “I’m sorry?” Ambra smiled softly. “Let it go.
Sienna expertly maneuvered the Trike through.
Hell, no. A church is the one thing we don’t have. Physics is the religion around here. Use the Lord’s name in vain all you like,′ he laughed, ’just don’t slander any quarks or mesons.
What is our origin? What is our destiny?
With pain in his voice, the camerlengo spoke of his late Pope... the victim of an Illuminati poisoning. And finally, his words almost a whisper, he spoke of a deadly new technology, antimatter, which in less than two hours threatened to destroy all of Vatican City.
Where do we come from? What are we doing here? What is the meaning of life and the universe?
The early Christians built a small shrine over his tomb. As Christianity spread, the shrine got bigger, layer upon layer, culminating in this collosal basilica. The entire Catholic faith had been built, quite literally, upon St Peter. The rock.
This is the future I would be giving my child?
Something was very, very wrong.
Breathe through your eyes,” she said. “I’m sorry?” “It relaxes the muscles. It’s called pranayama.
Norah declared.
It is a messy process for a culture to abandon its dieties. Sprititual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age by those we love and trust most – our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders. Therefore, any religious shifts occur over generations, and not without great angst, and often bloodshed. – Robert Langdon.