I trust the clergy are not involved in this problem. They‘re notoriously unscientific. One can‘t attack them with mathematics. - S. S. Van Dine

A fairy tale in terms of blood—a world in anamorphosis—a perversion of all rationality.… It’s unthinkable, senseless, like black magic and sorcery and thaumaturgy. It’s downright demented.

Only, as long as we‘re going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.

Good God!" he mummered. "I don't know what to believe."
"In that respect," returned Vance, "you're in the same disheartenin' predic'ment as all the philosophers.