It seemed Eve’s bite from the apple of knowledge was a debt women were doomed to pay for eternity. - Dan Brown

And your students,” Sato demanded, “don’t find it unnerving that Masons meditate with skulls and
scythes?”
“No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting in
front of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh. Misunderstanding a culture’s symbols is a common root of
prejudice

To permit ignorance is to empower it.

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.