Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated. - Richard K. Morgan

We are, after all, evolved to relate to the physical world.

I’m stacked, backed up and I’m fifth dan
And I’m not afraid of the Patchwork Man

Bay City public prosecutor's office wants to subpoena a Catholic who's in storage. Pivotal witness. The Vatican says she's already dead, and in the hands of God. They're calling it blasphemy."
"I see. So your loyalties are pretty undivided here."
She stopped and turned to face me.
"Kovacs, I hate these goddamn freaks. They've been grinding us down for the best part of two and a half thousand years. They've been responsible for more misery than any other organization in history. You know they won't even let their adherents practice birth control, for Christ's sake, and they've stood against every significant medical advance of the last five centuries.