Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts. - Brian Herbert

My Sihaya,’ he said as he held her, ‘I have loved you for five thousand years.

"Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made in search of personal power . . . all mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is "Thou shalt not question!" But we do anyway. We break that commandment as a matter of course. The work to which we have set ourselves is the liberating of the imagination, the harnessing of imagination to humankind's deepest sense of creativity."

Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it.