We exist with or without God. We are the inevitable result of entropy. Life is not the point of the universe. Life is simply what the universe create… - Dan Brown

It’s the conflict between Apollo and Dionysus — a famous dilemma in mythology. It’s the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.

When his brain died, all of the memories
held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate
in a flood of chemical reactions.