Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise. - Philip José Farmer

People who believed in Him were deluded. The believers in God might be intelligent, but they were mentally benighted. The gears in that part of the brain which dealt with religion had been put into neutral, and they were spinning. Or the circuit of religion had been disconnected from the main circuit of the intellect.
That was a bad analogy. People use their intellect to justify the nonintellective, emotionally based phenomenon called religion. Often brilliantly. But, as far as she was concerned, uselessly.

It’s not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character.

For the unholy trinity of Bobs: Bloch, Heinlein, and Traurig — may I meet them on the banks of The River, where we’ll board the fabulous Riverboat