No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is! - Sheri S. Tepper

As with other peoples who had focused their lives upon wrongs in the past and heaven in the future, Voorstod made an everlasting hell of the present.

And in the end, unable to feel terror, mankind will go, we will all go down, down, down to happyland.

Fearful people develop their religions as protective devices, ways to manipulate hostile environments, formulas for identifying and defeating their enemies. The more fearful people are, the more enemies they have, the more adversarial language they use.